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Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Demetri Martin, Imelda Staunton, Henry Goodman, Jonathan Groff
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.
Critical Reception & Ratings
Taking Woodstock, directed by Ang Lee in 2009, received a mixed critical reception, with a 47% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. However, it has a respectable 6.7/10 rating on IMDb, indicating that audiences had a somewhat positive response to this music, comedy, and drama film about the events leading up to the iconic Woodstock festival.
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Taking Woodstock, the 2009 film directed by acclaimed director Ang Lee, offers a unique and engaging blend of music, comedy, and drama that captures the spirit of the iconic 1969 Woodstock festival. Featuring a standout performance by Demetri Martin as the central character, this film provides an intimate and humorous perspective on the behind-the-scenes chaos that led to the creation of one of the most significant cultural events of the 20th century.
Taking Woodstock is a 2009 American historical musical comedy-drama film about the Woodstock Festival of 1969, directed by Ang Lee. The screenplay by James Schamus is based on the memoir Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert and a Life by Elliot Tiber and Tom Monte. The film premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, and opened in New York and Los Angeles on August 26, 2009, before its wide theatrical release two days later. It received mixed reviews and was a box office failure.
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