Taking Woodstock
- Director: Ang Lee (Sense & Sensibility, Brokeback Mountain)
- Cast: Demetri Martin, Emile Hirsch, Imelda Staunton, Henry Goodman, Jonathan Groff, Mamie Gummer, Eugene Levy, Liev Schreiber
1 hr. 50 min. Rated R for graphic nudity, some sexual content, drug use and language.
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Synopsis for Taking Woodstock: Working as an interior designer in Greenwich Village, Elliot feels empowered by the gay rights movement. But he is also still staked to the family business -- a dumpy Catskills motel called the El Monaco that is being run into the ground by his overbearing parents, Jake and Sonia Teichberg. In the summer of 1969, Elliot has to move back upstate to the El Monaco in order to help save the motel from being taken over by the bank. Upon hearing that a planned music and arts festival has lost its permit from the neighboring town of Wallkill, NY, Elliot calls producer Michael Lang at Woodstock Ventures to offer his family's motel to the promoters and generate some much-needed business. Soon the Woodstock staff is moving into the El Monaco -- and half a million people are on their way to Yasgur's farm for "3 days of Peace & Music in White Lake."