
Taking Woodstock
Comedy, Drama, Music
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy affectionate period pieces about ordinary people swept into transformative cultural moments, with gentle humor and a celebratory atmosphere.
- Tone
- warm, nostalgic, whimsical
- Payoff
- amusement, inspiration
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- gentle
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- family, community, self-discovery, cultural change, generational tension
- Setting
- late 1960s, struggling rural resort community and sprawling outdoor festival