***The film starts at 19.30. Let's meet between 19.00 and 19.20 in front of the cinema***
Ang Lee delivers an entertaining light comedy about a real-life person who somewhat inadvertently helped the whole iconic Woodstock concert to take place.
It's a low-wattage film about a high-wattage event, but you do get a thoughtful, playful, often amusing film about what happened backstage at one of the '60s' great happenings…
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.
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 neighbors 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.
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