Taking Woodstock

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