Taking Woodstock (2009)

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Starring

• Demetri Martin as Elliot Tiber
• Emile Hirsch as Billy
• Imelda Staunton
• Liev Schreiber as Vilma
• Henry Goodman
• Jonathan Groff
• Eugene Levy as Max Yasgur
• Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Dan
• Paul Dano as VW Guy
• Zoe Kazan
• Dan Fogler
• Mamie Gummer

Movie Story

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.

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Clip 2 'Renting Out the El Monaco'

Clip 'I Remember This Hill'

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posted by Puluwvqb on Jul 14, 2009