It was the festival that would come to be the greatest of all time. It was the place to be in the summer of 1969, and Elliot Teichberg made it happen.
“Taking Woodstock,” the latest film by director Ang Lee(Brokeback Mountain), follows the true story of Elliot (Demetri Martin) and his process of organizing the three day festival of peace and music and the turmoil he and his family had to endure in order to evolve personally.
Elliot, an interior designer, comes back home from Greenwich Village to upstate White Lake, NY. There he spends his time and money helping his parents’ filthy motel, the El Monaco.
Every summer Elliot creates a small music and arts festival to bring attention to the small town (and business to the motel), but when another large festival gets cancelled by locals who hate hippies, Elliot calls the production company and Michael Lang (Jonathan Groff) to hold the festival in his neighbor’s farm.
What follows is a bit of chaos when more than 100,000 people show up to the concert and the motel is booming with business — and Elliot and his parents begin to find their own place in their lives.
