Taking Woodstock poster
Director Ang Lee
Screenplay James Schamus

Taking Woodstock

Tagline: A generation began in his backyard.

Release Date: 2009-08-26

Duration: 120 minutes

Synopsis

The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. 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 his parents' run-down motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor’s farm in White Lake, New York, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life–and American culture–forever.

Casting

  • Jeffrey Dean Morgan
    Dan
  • Paul Dano
    VW Guy
  • Imelda Staunton
    Sonia Teichberg
  • Richard Thomas
    Don
  • Liev Schreiber
    Wilma
  • Katherine Waterston
    Penny
  • Emile Hirsch
    Billy
  • Eugene Levy
    Max Yasgur
  • Skylar Astin
    John Roberts
  • Caitlin FitzGerald
    Young Woman