Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee tells the story of the Greenwich
Village interior designer who inadvertently helped to spark a cultural
revolution by offering the organizers of the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival
boarding at his family's Catskills motel. The year is 1969. Change is brewing in
America, and the energy in Greenwich Village is palpable. Elliot Tiber (Demetri
Martin) is working as an interior designer when he discovers that a high-profile
concert has recently lost its permit from the nearby town of Wallkill, NY.
Emboldened by the burgeoning gay rights movement yet still tied to tradition in
the form of the family business -- a Catskills motel called the El Monaco --
Tiber phones producer Michael Lang (Jonathan Groff) at Woodstock Ventures and
offers boarding to the harried concert crew. Later, as the Woodstock Ventures
staff begans arriving in droves, half a million concertgoers make their way to
Max Yasgur's (Eugene Levy) adjacent farm in White Lake, NJ, to witness the
counterculture celebration that would ultimately make history as one of the
greatest events in the annals of rock & roll. Imelda Staunton, Emile Hirsch,
Liev Schreiber, and Paul Dano co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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