Most know or remember the historic summer of 1969 when the “3 days of Peace & Music in White Lake”, known as Woodstock became part of the public consciousness and a part of history. “Taking Woodstock”, directed by Oscar winner Ang Lee, recreates the events leading to Woodstock based on the memoirs of Elliot Tiber. Tiber, an interior designer in Greenwich Village, has to move back upstate to help save the El Monaco motel, owned by his parents, from being taken over by the bank. When Elliot finds that a planned music and arts festival has lost its permit from the neighboring town of Wallkill, NY, Elliot calls the producer to offer his family’s motel to the promoters and generate some much-needed business. He also introduces the producer to his neighbor who operates a 600-acre dairy farm close by. That dairy farm eventually becomes the site for the music festival that gets the attention of the entire nation, and destined to become that part of history known as Woodstock!

“Taking Woodstock” captures the humor, fortitude, and the dream of a music & arts festival that was destined to be 3 days to help define the peace movement of the sixties. The ensemble cast along with songs from the 60’s music icons, including The Doors, The Grateful Dead, and Jefferson Airplane, director Ang Lee presents a look at the summer of 1969, through the eyes of Elliot Tiber and the experience of over 500,000 young people who made their way to the unknown slice of real estate in White Lake, that changed popular culture, forever...

Starring Demetri Martin, Jonathan Groff, Henry Goodman, Imelda Staunton, Emile Hirsch, Dan Fogler, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Live Schreiber.