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TAKING WOODSTOCK
Synopsis
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 is about to foreclose; his father wants to burn the place down, but hasn’t paid theinsurance; and Elliot is still figuring how to come out to his parents. When Elliot hears that a neighbouring 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 neighbour's farm in White Lake, NY, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life, and popular culture, forever.
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Ang LEE
Credits
- Ang LEE - Director
- James SCHAMUS - Screenplay
- Eric GAUTIER - Cinematography
- David GROPMAN - Set Designer
- Danny ELFMAN - Music
- Tim SQUYRES - Film Editor
Actors
- Dan FOGLER - Devon
- Henry GOODMAN - Jake Teichberg
- Jonathan GROFF - Michael Lang
- Emile HIRSCH - Billy
- Eugène LEVY - Max Yasgur
- Demetri MARTIN - Elliot Tiber
- Liev SCHREIBER - Vilma
- Imelda STAUNTON - Sonia Teichberg
Contacts and useful links
Distribution
UNIVERSAL PICTURES INTERNATIONAL - T : +33 (0)1 40 69 66 56 - www.universalpictures.com
French press
Jérôme Jouneaux, Isabelle Duvoisin, Matthieu Rey - T : +33 (0)1 53 20 01 20 - matthieu-rey@wanadoo.fr
International press
SWCP - Sarah Wilby - T : + 44 207 580 0222 - sarahwilby@swcp.co.uk - www.swcp.co.uk
Foreign sales
FOCUS FEATURES INTERNATIONAL - T : +44 207 307 1330 - www.FilmInFocus.com