STUDIO SYNOPSIS

A generation began in his backyard... From Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee ("Brokeback Mountain," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"), comes "Taking Woodstock," a new comedy inspired by the true story of Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin) and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that 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'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.

SPIRITUAL POINT OF VIEW
Visual Review

At the heart of Woodstock, most religions and certainly of biblical faith is a return to the garden (of Eden). As Joni Mitchell with CS&N at Woodstock so famously sang, “We are stardust, we are golden, and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.”

Ah paradise, where nature is restored, humans are free at last, and we all walk with God. Woodstock was an extension of this inner human longing in all of us.

Even Cat Stevens expressed a hope for this future unity: “I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be someday it's going to come.".