Taking Woodstock

Genre: Comedy/Music
Language: English
Director: Ang Lee (Lust, Caution)
Cast: Demetri Martin, Emile Hirsch (Milk), Imelda Staunton (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), Liev Schreiber (X-Men Origins: Wolverine)
Runtime: 120 minutes

Plot:

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's 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.

Watch the movie on 2 Oct night @ The Cathay with Sylvia

ah-deng says: 3½ / 5 The year 1969, a year which I have not even exist but youths were already taking on their our charge. Hippies were definitely a colourful culture that our parents went through during that period. The contrast of the pro-hippies & antis, the grouchy mum & gentle dad. I especially like the 2 way scenes, which proves Ang Lee's professional directing once again.