Director: Ang LeeGenre: Music, Comedy, Indie, Comedy-drama, Period piece, Slice of life story, Biopic [feature], Drama
Year: 2009
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Gail Martino,
Imelda Staunton,
Jeffrey Dean Morgan,
Emile Hirsch,
Demetri Martin,
Henry Goodman,
Paul Dano,
Sondra James,
Kelli Garner,
Christina Kirk,
Clark Middleton,
Bette Henritze,
Edward Hibbert,
Lee Wong,
Adam LeFevre,
Eugene Levy,
Andy Prosky,
Dan Fogler,
Carmel Amit,
Zachary Booth,
Jennifer Merrill,
Ivan Sandomire,
Matthew Shear,
Darcy Bledsoe,
Halley Cianfarini,
Jesse Kile,
Ashley Middlebrook,
Bec Stupak,
Gabriel Sunday,
Jonathan Groff,
Mamie Gummer,
Stephen Kunken,
Adam Pally,
Kevin Sussman,
Pippa Pearthree,
Skylar Astin,
Daniel Eric Gold,
Leonard Berdick,
Sharon J. Giroux,
William B. Ward Jr.,
Louisa Krause,
Spadaque Volcimus,
Bill Coelius,
Nicky Taylor,
Michael Izquierdo,
Katherine Waterston,
Will Janowitz,
Jeremy Shamos,
Malachy Cleary,
Richard Thomas,
Sebastian Beacon,
Kelly Klein,
Garett Ross,
Darren Pettie,
Andrew Katz,
Patrick Cupo,
Boris McGiver,
Liev Schreiber,
Caitlin Fitzgerald,
Michael J. Burg,
Stefano Da Fre,
Taunia Hottman-Hubbard,
David Lavine,
Michael Zegen,
Andrew Zox,
Angus Hamilton,
Christopher Meier,
Richard Phelan McGreal,
Casson Rugen,
Joseph Ulmer,
Harry Zittel,
Alyssa May Gold,
Gaston Jean Baptiste,
Michael McGinnis,
Dan Knobler,
Jon Seale,
David Wilson Barnes,
James Hanlon,
Don Puglisi,
Kirsten Bach,
Kevin Chamberlin,
Rachel Morrall,
Anthoula Katsimatides,
Marjorie Austrian,
Kyle Plante,
Lew ZuckerTaking Woodstock is a 2009 American 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.
Set in 1969, the film follows the true story of Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin), an aspiring Greenwich Village interior designer whose parents, Jake (Henry Goodman) and Sonia (Imelda Staunton), own the small dilapidated El Monaco Motel in White Lake, in the town of Bethel, New York. A hippie theater troupe, The Earthlight Players, rents the barn, but can hardly pay any rent. Due to financial trouble, the motel may have to be closed, but Elliot pleads with the local bank not to foreclose on the mortgage and Sonia delivers a tirade about her struggles as a Russian refugee. The family is given until the end of the summer to pay up.
Elliot plans to hold a small musical festival, and has, for $1, obtained a permit from the town's chamber of commerce (of which he is also
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