TAKING WOODSTOCK
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 the
insurance; 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.
Year of production: 2009
Country: United States
Duration: 120 minutes
Credits
- Ang LEE Director
- James SCHAMUS Screenplay
- Eric GAUTIER Cinematography
- David GROPMAN Production Design
- Danny ELFMAN Music
- Tim SQUYRES Editing
Casting
- Demetri MARTIN Elliot Tiber
- Liev SCHREIBER Vilma
- Henry GOODMAN Jake Teichberg
- Dan FOGLER Devon
- Jonathan GROFF Michael Lang
- Emile HIRSCH Billy
- Imelda STAUNTON Sonia Teichberg
- Eugène LEVY Max Yasgur
Images
Contacts
Secondary Production
- NONE India
French Press
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JÉROME JOUNEAUX, ISABELLE DUVOISIN, MATTHIEU REY
T: + 33 1 53 20 01 20jerome-jouneaux@wanadoo.fr
JÉROME JOUNEAUX, ISABELLE DUVOISINjerome-jouneaux@wanadoo.fr
International Press
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SWCP
T: 44 207 580 0222www.swcp.co.uk
SARAH WILBYsarahwilby@swcp.co.uk
Distribution
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UNIVERSAL PICTURES INTERNATIONAL FRANCE SAS
T: (0)1 40 69 66 56www.universalpictures-film.fr
International sales
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FOCUS FEATURES INTERNATIONAL
T: 44 20 73 07 13 30www.focusfeatures.com