Taking Woodstock (2009)

Taking Woodstock
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MA15+

Strong drug use, nudity and coarse language

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  • 120 mins

Working as an interior designer in Greenwich Village, Elliot feels empowered by the gay rights movement. But he is also still staked to the family business - a dumpy Catskills motel called the El Monaco that is being run into the ground by his overbearing parents, Jake and Sonia Teichberg (Henry Goodman and Imelda Staunton). In the summer of 1969, Elliot has to move back upstate to the El Monaco in order to help save the motel from being taken over by the bank. Upon hearing that a planned music and arts festival has lost its permit from the neighbouring town of Wallkill, NY, Elliot calls producer Michael Lang (Jonathan Groff) at Woodstock Ventures to offer his family's motel to the promoters and generate some much-needed business. Elliot also introduces Lang to his neighbour Max Yasgur (Eugene Levy), who operates a 600-acre dairy farm down the road. Soon the Woodstock staff is moving into the El Monaco - and half a million people are on their way to Yasgur's farm for "3 days of Peace & Music in White Lake."

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Reviewed by: Wendy-Ann   |   2 February 2010

entertaining, well done.

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Reviewed by: Brian T.   |   6 January 2010

I just loved this movie. It's heart and soul was in the right place - making a legend of the Woodstock myth. There's a lot about Elliot we do not know and his "secret life" in New York's Greenwich Village (after the Stonewall riots) simply adds to the journey of discovery about him!! We don't see much of the festival but I doubt whether the people who were there even saw it. Another great looking movie from Ang Lee.

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Reviewed by: Gary H.   |   4 February 2010

This movie is so boring. For a long time, nothing happens and then even less happens.



This is more an overview of what went into making the festival happen, so don't expect to get too close to the stage as the music itself is very much in the background.

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