
A generation began in his backyard…. From
Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain,
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), comes Taking Woodstock, a
new comedy inspired by the true story of Elliot Tiber (Demetri
Martin) and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal
role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival
into the happening that it was.
It’s 1969, and Elliot Tiber, a down-on-his-luck interior
designer in Greenwich Village , New York , has to move back
upstate to help his parents run their dilapidated Catskills
motel, The El Monaco. The bank’s about to foreclose; his
father wants to burn the place down, but hasn’t paid the
insurance; and Elliot is still figuring how to come out to
his parents.
When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the
permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers,
thinking he could drum up some much-needed business for the
motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their
way to his neighbor’s farm in White Lake, NY, and Elliot
finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience
that would change his life, and American culture, forever.
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