Taking Woodstock

• 6.207
• 2009-08-26
• 120 minutes mins

The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. 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 his parents' run-down motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor’s farm in White Lake, New York, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life–and American culture–forever.

Starring:

Demetri Martin (Elliot Teichberg) Imelda Staunton (Sonia Teichberg) Henry Goodman (Jake Teichberg) Liev Schreiber (Wilma) Jonathan Groff (Michael Lang) Eugene Levy (Max Yasgur) Emile Hirsch (Billy) Paul Dano (VW Guy) Kelli Garner (VW Girl) Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Dan)

Director:

Ang Lee

Writer:

James Schamus