A generation began in his backyard...Taking Woodstock is a new comedy inspired by the true story of Elliot Tiver and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening it was.
It's 1969, and Elliot Tiber, a down-on-his-luck interior designer in Greenwich Village, New York, has to move back upstate to help his parents run their dilapidated Catskills motel, the El Monaco. The bank is about to foreclose; his father wants to burn the place down, but hasn't paid the insurance; and Elliot is still figuring how to come out to his parents. 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 the motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor's farm in White Lake, NY, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life, and American culture, forever.
Taking Woodstock is directed by Academy Award R winner Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) with a screenplay by James Schamus (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Ice Storm), based on the book Taking Woodstock by Elliot Tiber. The film starts Demetri Martin (Important Things with Demetri Martin on Comedy Central) as Elliot TIber, Emile Hirsch (Milk, Into the Wild), and Liev Schreiber (Defiance).
In addition to the complete shooting script, this book inlcludes a special color photo section with historical and film photos, and introductions by Ang Lee and James Schamus.
