Taking Woodstock (2009)

ANG LEE

Drama Comedy 1960s True Stories Drugs Coming of Age LGBTQI+Feel Good Recommended

Cast

HENRY GOODMAN EDWARD HIBBERT IMELDA STAUNTON DEMETRI MARTIN EMILE HIRSCH PAUL DANO LIEV SCHREIBER JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN EUGENE LEVY JONATHAN GROFF DAN FOGLER JAMES SCHAMUS ELLIOT TIBER TOM MONTE

Plot

1969; not very successful interior designer Eliot returns from Greenwich Village to help out his struggling parents with their failing motel in upstate New York. Hearing about the cancellation of a nearby hippie festival he thinks he can drum up some business by offering them a location... and the rest is history! There is not much music in this comic glowing tribute to the flower power era, more a starry-eyed mosaic of characters drifting in and out of focus. Based on Eliot Tiber's memoirs.