Taking Woodstock – New Images From Film And Production

Written on July 18, 2009 by Marc Eastman in Movies

I’m oddly interested in the upcoming feature from director Ang Lee which stars Emile Hirsch, Demetri Martin, and Eugene Levy. Focus Features sent me over some new images from Taking Woodstock, and put together with the trailer, the film has definitely piqued my interest.

The film also has a pretty interesting website at www.takingwoodstockthemovie.com.

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Synopsis -

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.