- Taking Woodstock
Infobox Film
name = Taking Woodstock
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director =Ang Lee
producer =Celia D. Costas
writer = "Novel"Elliot Tiber Tom Monte
"Screenplay"James Schamus
starring =Imelda Staunton Henry Goodman Jonathan Groff Mamie Gummer Eugene Levy
music =
cinematography =
editing =Tim Squyres
distributor =Focus Features
released =June 26 , 2009
runtime =
country = USA
language = English
budget = 35,000,000
gross =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
amg_id = 449996
imdb_id = 1127896"Taking Woodstock" is a film directed by
Ang Lee that is currently in production [http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080731/LIVING/80730029/1004] and is scheduled for release in2009 . [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1127896/] The screenplay is based on the autobiography "." byElliot Tiber andTom Monte . [http://www.amazon.com/Taking-Woodstock-Elliot-Tiber/dp/0757002935]Plot
The film, based upon the book of the same name, follows the true life story of a closeted gay man hiding his orientation from his family, through the
Stonewall Riots inNew York City , which is seen by many as having started the modernGay ,Lesbian ,Bisexual andTransgender movement, through one of the defining counter-culture events of the generation. This man wasElliot Tiber , an aspiring Greenwich Village interior designer whose parents owned a small motel in UpstateNew York and at the time held the only musical festival permit in the entire town ofBethel, New York . Tiber offered both the motel and the permit to theWoodstock Festival 's organizers.Cast
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Demetri Martin as Elliot Tiber, who volunteered his family's motel to be the home base for Woodstock concert organizers which would take place on a nearby farmcite news|url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117990112.html?categoryid=13&cs=1|author=Michael Fleming|title='Taking Woodstock' set to start|publisher=Variety Magazine |date=2008-08-05|accessdate=2008-09-01]
*Imelda Staunton as Elliot's mom
*Henry Goodman as Elliot's dad
*Jonathan Groff as Woodstock organizer Michael Lang
*Mamie Gummer as Lang's assistant
*Eugene Levy as Max Yasgur, who owns the nearby farm
*Emile Hirsch as a recently returned Vietnam vet
*Liev Schreiber as a transvestite named Vilma
*Jeffrey Dean Morgan as a closeted married man having an affair with Tiber
*Paul Dano andZoe Kazan as a hippie couple attending the concert
*Dan Fogler as a local theater troupe head
*Kevin Chamberlin as a local banker foreclosing on Elliot's family's motel
*Damian Kulash as a long-haired folk singer [OK Go Newsletter, 10/10/08]
*Kevin Sussman as Mel-- Extras --
*Joe Cavaliere as a shirtless extra.
*Kevin Kulzer as hugging a watermelon in front of the motel extra.Production
Filming is taking place in Columbia County, in Upstate
New York , andNew York City . [http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/thursday/partii/ny-etmvbuzz5782060jul31,0,3397420.story] [http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080731/LIVING/80730029/1004] [http://www.cinematical.com/2008/04/23/ang-lee-signs-on-for-taking-woodstock/]ee also
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Woodstock Festival External links
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