Taking Woodstock

2009 - ENGLISH - MOVIE

Biography Comedy Drama Musical Music History

The film is set in 1969 and follows Elliot Tiber, an aspiring interior designer who offers his permit and accommodations to the organizers of the Woodstock Festival to help his financially struggling familys resort, leading to opposition and building code violations along the way, but ultimately resulting in wealth and Elliots decision to move to California. Taking Woodstock is a 2009 American English-language Biography Comedy movie starring Demetri Martin, Dan Fogler, Henry Goodman, Jonathan Groff, Eugene Levy, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Bob Weisz. The movie is based on Taking Woodstock by Elliot Tiber Tom Monte. Taking Woodstock was Produced by James Schamus, Ang Lee and Celia Costas. Taking Woodstock is written by James Schamus, Elliot Tiber and Tom Monte and it is directed by Ang Lee. Focus Features acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. Taking Woodstock was released on 1st October 2009 and takes a screen time of 120 minutes. Taking Woodstock was made on a budget of $30 million and at the box office it grossed only $9 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by James Schamus. Cinematography was done by Eric Gautier and editing by Tim Squyres. The music was composed by Danny Elfman.
terrific enjoyable entertaining unique
  • Jini Score
    7.3/10
  • Critics Score
    71%
  • Rating
    6.7/10
  • Jini Score
    7.3%
  • Critics Score
    71
  • Rating
    6.7
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Release Date01 OCT 2009
Budget$ 30 MILLION
Language

English

Genre

Biography , Comedy , Drama , Musical , Music , History

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Taking Woodstock Reviews and Ratings

Average Review Rating : positive

64.7%

Positive Review Rating : 71%

71%
    • Mike D'Angelo

      A thing of beauty is a joy forever, but a thing of plodding inevitability is just two hours of my time amiably wasted. ( Read More )
    • Owen Gleiberman

      Lee captures the fractious, joyful, monstrously evolving mass it all was. ( Read More )
    • Roger Ebert

      Luckily I saw Woodstock again in April, so it was fresh in my mind while watching Taking Woodstock, Ang Lees entertaining film about the kid who made it all possible in Woodstock, anyway.This is Elliot Teichberg, a young interior designer who leaves a New York career to return home to upstate New York and help his parents bail out their failing, shabby motel. ( Read More )
    • Eric Kohn

      A split screen devise blatantly ripped from the classic Woodstock documentary just distracts from the action, and an acid sequence falls low in the pantheon of cinematic acid trips.Occasional archival footage pops up in expository sequences, which does little except provide a reminder that the real thing contained many more entertaining qualities than this undercooked project. ( Read More )
    • Anthony Quinn

      Lee wants to combine a landmark moment with a coming of age story, but his style here is so loose and rambling its impossible to sense the excitement of the former and the particularity of the latter: the spectacle of 100,000 hippies getting wasted and sliding through mud isnt as interesting as he thinks, while Elliots peculiar passivity in the face of his appalling mother (Imelda Staunton) deprives the drama of oxygen. ( Read More )
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  • cannes film festival
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    2 NOMINATIONS