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Description: 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.

Release Date: 8/28/2009

Genre: Comedy

Studio: Focus Features

Rating: Movie Rating


Release Dates:

Country Release Type Date
United States Theatrical Wide Release 8/28/2009
United States DVD/Blu-ray Release 12/15/2009
France Theatrical Wide Release 9/23/2009
Germany Theatrical Wide Release 9/3/2009
Spain Theatrical Wide Release 9/25/2009
Italy Theatrical Wide Release 10/9/2009


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