Taking Woodstock

• Music
• Comedy
• Drama

The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. 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 his parents' run-down motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor’s farm in White Lake, New York, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life–and American culture–forever.

Taking Woodstock is a 2009 music comedy-drama that tells the true story of Elliot Tiber, whose small-town motel inadvertently became central to organizing the legendary 1969 Woodstock Festival. Directed by Ang Lee, the film follows how a chance phone call set off a chain of events that brought half a million people to upstate New York and changed American culture forever. It's available to stream and purchase on major platforms.

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