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Release Date: 2009

Cast: Sondra James, Michael McGinnis, Clark Middleton, Kelly Klein, Skylar Astin, Stefano Da Fre, Dan Knobler, Christina Kirk, Christopher Meier, Darren Pettie, Jeremy Shamos, Boris McGiver ...MORE

Cast: Sondra James, Michael McGinnis, Clark Middleton, Kelly Klein, Skylar Astin, Stefano Da Fre, Dan Knobler, Christina Kirk, Christopher Meier, Darren Pettie, Jeremy Shamos, Boris McGiver, William B. Ward Jr., Leonard Berdick, Matthew Shear, Daniel Eric Gold, Kyle Plante, Michael J. Burg, Kirsten Bach, Garett Ross, Marjorie Austrian, Malachy Cleary, Kelli Garner, Ashley Middlebrook, Demetri Martin, Stephen Kunken, Sebastian Beacon, Patrick Cupo, Zachary Booth, Emile Hirsch, Angus Hamilton, Nicky Taylor, Darcy Bledsoe, Michael Izquierdo, Lee Wong, Andy Prosky, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Richard Thomas, Will Janowitz, Bec Stupak, Richard Phelan McGreal, Bill Coelius, Sharon J. Giroux, Adam LeFevre, Carmel Amit, Andrew Zox, Eugene Levy, Paul Dano, Jesse Kile, Harry Zittel, Louisa Krause, Halley Cianfarini, Dan Fogler, Spadaque Volcimus, David Wilson Barnes, Adam Pally, Rachel Morrall, Mamie Gummer, David Lavine, Bette Henritze, Michael Zegen, Katherine Waterston, Imelda Staunton, Gail Martino, Caitlin Fitzgerald, Jennifer Merrill, Jon Seale, Alyssa May Gold, Taunia Hottman-Hubbard, Edward Hibbert, Pippa Pearthree, Jonathan Groff, Henry Goodman, Ivan Sandomire, Don Puglisi, Kevin Sussman, Anthoula Katsimatides, Gabriel Sunday, Andrew Katz, Kevin Chamberlin, Joseph Ulmer, Liev Schreiber, Lew Zucker, James Hanlon, Casson Rugen, Gaston Jean Baptiste ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Indie, Biopic [Feature], Slice Of Life Story, Drama Film, Comedy-Drama, Comedy, Music, Period Piece

Taking 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... MORE

Taking 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 LESS