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Taking Woodstock

2009 • 2h1m Music, Comedy, Drama

Rating

6.2/10

Popularity

5

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.

Details

Director

Ang Lee

Screenplay

James Schamus

Cast

Demetri Martin

Imelda Staunton

Henry Goodman

Release date

8/26/2009

Status

Released

Budget

$30,000,000

Revenue

$9,975,737

Origin country

US

Vote count

465