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Release Date: 2009 Cast: Sondra James, Mamie Gummer, Marjorie Austrian, Kelly Klein, Garett Ross, William B. Ward Jr., Sharon J. Giroux, Jon Seale, Gabriel Sunday, Kelli Garner, Jonathan Groff, Gail Martino ...MORE
Cast: Sondra James, Mamie Gummer, Marjorie Austrian, Kelly Klein, Garett Ross, William B. Ward Jr., Sharon J. Giroux, Jon Seale, Gabriel Sunday, Kelli Garner, Jonathan Groff, Gail Martino, Kevin Sussman, Jeremy Shamos, James Hanlon, Malachy Cleary, Michael Izquierdo, Spadaque Volcimus, Darcy Bledsoe, Jennifer Merrill, Bill Coelius, Ivan Sandomire, Daniel Eric Gold, Louisa Krause, Halley Cianfarini, Demetri Martin, Carmel Amit, Patrick Cupo, Michael J. Burg, Nicky Taylor, Liev Schreiber, Angus Hamilton, Christopher Meier, Katherine Waterston, Richard Phelan McGreal, Casson Rugen, Gaston Jean Baptiste, Adam LeFevre, Lee Wong, Bette Henritze, Dan Fogler, Henry Goodman, Stefano Da Fre, Boris McGiver, Taunia Hottman-Hubbard, David Lavine, Caitlin Fitzgerald, Michael Zegen, Christina Kirk, Eugene Levy, Don Puglisi, Kirsten Bach, Joseph Ulmer, Will Janowitz, Harry Zittel, Rachel Morrall, Stephen Kunken, Alyssa May Gold, Michael McGinnis, David Wilson Barnes, Dan Knobler, Paul Dano, Leonard Berdick, Adam Pally, Andy Prosky, Emile Hirsch, Zachary Booth, Anthoula Katsimatides, Skylar Astin, Darren Pettie, Pippa Pearthree, Richard Thomas, Sebastian Beacon, Matthew Shear, Kevin Chamberlin, Clark Middleton, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Edward Hibbert, Andrew Zox, Andrew Katz, Bec Stupak, Ashley Middlebrook, Jesse Kile, Imelda Staunton, Lew Zucker, Kyle Plante ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Indie, Slice of life story, Comedy-drama, Comedy, Period piece, Biopic [feature], Music 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
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