Taking Woodstock
Taking Woodstock is a 2009 American comedydrama film about the Woodstock Festival of 1969, directed by Ang Lee. The screenplay by James Schamus is based on the memoir Taking Woodstock A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life by Elliot Tiber and Tom Monte.
Set in 1969, the film follows the true story of Elliot Tiber Demetri Martin, an aspiring Greenwich Village interior designer whose parents, Jake Henry Goodman and Sonia Imelda Staunton, own the small dilapidated El Monaco Resort in White Lake, in the town of Bethel, New York. A hippie theater troupe, The Earthlight Players, rents the barn, but can hardly pay any rent. Due to financial trouble, the motel may have to be closed, but Elliot pleads with the local bank not to foreclose on the mortgage and Sonia delivers a tirade about her struggles as a Russian refugee. The family is given until the end of the summer to pay up.Elliot plans to hold a small musical festival, and has, for 1, obtained a permit from the towns chamber of commerce of which he is also the president. When he hears that the organizers of the Woodstock Festival face opposition against the originally planned location, he offers his permit and the motel accommodations to organizer Michael Lang Jonathan Groff. A neighbor, Max Yasgur Eugene Levy, provides his nearby farm land first they agree on a fee of 5,000, but after realizing how many people will come, Yasgur demands 75,000, which the organizers reluctantly accept. Elliot comes to agreement about the fee for the motel more smoothly. Initial objections by his mother quickly disappear when she sees the cash paid in advance. ........
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