Taking Woodstock

Infobox Film
name = Taking Woodstock


caption =
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 in 2009. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1127896/] The screenplay is based on the autobiography "." by Elliot Tiber and Tom 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 in New York City, which is seen by many as having started the modern Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender movement, through one of the defining counter-culture events of the generation. This man was Elliot Tiber, an aspiring Greenwich Village interior designer whose parents owned a small motel in Upstate New York and at the time held the only musical festival permit in the entire town of Bethel, New York. Tiber offered both the motel and the permit to the Woodstock Festival's organizers.

Cast

* 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 and Zoe 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, and New 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

* Woodstock Festival

External links

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References