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MOVIE: TAKING WOODSTOCK
SHOWTIME 8:00 PM

AMC Theatres Empire 25
234 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036
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Starring
Demetri Martin, Dan Fogler, Imelda Staunton, Emile Hirsch, Eugene Levy... See more
Director(s)
Ang Lee Distributor(s)
Focus FeaturesMPAA Rating
R Runtime
120 min

A generation began in his backyard... From Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee ('Brokeback Mountain,' 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'), comes 'Taking Woodstock,' a new 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 and Arts Festival into the happening that it was.

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's 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 neighboring 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 neighbor's farm in White Lake, NY, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life, and American culture, forever.

REVIEWS:
Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites Taking Woodstock has the freshness of something being created, not remembered.Read the full review
San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalleAdd Critic to Favorites If you've ever wondered what it would be like to be there - to actually be there, man - this movie gets it.Read the full review
The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk HoneycuttAdd Critic to Favorites It's a low-wattage film about a high-wattage event. Which is somewhat disappointing, though you do get a thoughtful, playful, often amusing film about what happened backstage at one of the '60s' great happenings.Read the full review
The New York Times | Stephen HoldenAdd Critic to Favorites This likable, humane movie is not an attempt to recreate the epochal Woodstock Music and Art Fair captured in Michael Wadleigh’s documentary “Woodstock.” It is essentially a small, intimate film into which is fitted a peripheral view of the landmark event.Read the full review
Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites Lee captures the fractious, joyful, monstrously evolving mass it all was.Read the full review