Product DescriptionA generation committed in His backyard? From Academy Award?-Winning director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) comes Taking Woodstock, the 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 & Arts Festival Into the happening That it was. When Elliot Hears That a neighbor 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. Amazon. comThe famous stage where Jimi Hendrix, the Who, and Crosby, Stills and Nash Played before a half-million people in 1969 was never closer than a mile or so away in Taking Woodstock. Similarly, some of the familiar live music in Michael Wadleigh’s Oscar-winning, 1970 documentary Woodstock was never louder than a distant echo in this period film by Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain). Because that’s Taking Woodstock is not really about the music, but about a little-known figure who had everything to do with making the Woodstock concert festival happen. Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin) is the very young or a chamber of commerce president in the Catskills town where he Grew up. Burdened with the failure of His Parents (amazing performance by Imelda Staunton and Henry Goodman) to make a go or a crummy motel, Elliot was making himself crazy trying to be a dutiful son and civic leader. Both trials are lightened and His Intensified by an accident of history. Elliot sees a newspaper article explaining how the organizers of an outdoor rock concert have lost the use of a nearby field, They Were counting on. In short order, he makes contact with the promoters, putting em together with Dairy Farmers Max Yasgur (Eugene Levy), who has plenty of available pasture for rent. Also he sets up the groove but Cryptic boss of the whole enterprise, Michael Lang (astute work by Tony Award-nominated Jonathan Groff, a talent to watch), as well as Lang’s movers and shakers at the motel. In no time, the Tiber “Life Becomes a three-ring circus, while a steady stream of young people clog the roads on Their Way to a legendary concert. Lee, a master at creating environments for the precise Varied stories he tells (Sense and Sensibility, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), gets the look and texture and energy of a counterculture happening in 1969 close to perfect. Also he makes Taking Woodstock vintage look, bleaching the colors to Approximate tones of many a big movie from That era, and Using a split screen to challenge the idea of ??the singular perspective cameras. In the end, Taking Woodstock is Itself a pretty far-out version of a heartwarming coming-of-age tale – Elliot’s coming-of-age, That is, as the excellent Martin’s boy-man looks beyond That motel and disco verse a big , wide world out there, just waiting for him. – Tom Keogh

Taking Woodstock