Taking Woodstock
| Taking Woodstock | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Ang Lee |
| Written by | "Novel" Elliot Tiber Tom Monte "Screenplay" James Schamus |
| Produced by | Celia D. Costas |
| Starring | Imelda Staunton Henry Goodman Jonathan Groff Mamie Gummer Eugene Levy |
| Edited by | Tim Squyres |
| Distributed by | Focus Features |
Release dates | June 26, 2009 |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | 35,000,000 |
Taking Woodstock is a film directed by Ang Lee that is currently in production[1] and is scheduled for release in 2009.[2] The screenplay is based on the autobiography "Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life." by Elliot Tiber and Tom Monte.[3]
Plot
The film, based upon the book of the same name, follows the true life story of a closeted gay man hiding his orientation from his family, through the Stonewall Riots in New York City, which is seen by many as having started the modern Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender movement, through one of the defining counter-culture events of the generation. This man was Elliot Tiber, an aspiring Greenwich Village interior designer whose parents owned a small motel in Upstate New York and at the time held the only musical festival permit in the entire town of Bethel, New York. Tiber offered both the motel and the permit to the Woodstock Festival's organizers.
Cast
- Demetri Martin as Elliot Tiber, who volunteered his family's motel to be the home base for Woodstock concert organizers which would take place on a nearby farm[4]
- Imelda Staunton as Elliot's mom[4]
- Henry Goodman as Elliot's dad[4]
- Jonathan Groff as Woodstock organizer Michael Lang[4]
- Mamie Gummer as Lang's assistant[4]
- Eugene Levy as Max Yasgur, who owns the nearby farm[4]
- Emile Hirsch as a recently returned Vietnam vet[4]
- Liev Schreiber as a transvestite named Vilma[4]
- Jeffrey Dean Morgan as a closeted married man having an affair with Tiber[4]
- Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan as a hippie couple attending the concert[4]
- Dan Fogler as a local theater troupe head[4]
- Kevin Chamberlin as a local banker foreclosing on Elliot's family's motel[4]
- Damian Kulash as a long-haired folk singer [5]
- Kevin Sussman as Mel
- Adam Pally as Artie
- Joshua McCaghren as Robert Mapplethorpe [6]
- Lee Cunningham as Georgette's Girlfriend - Featured
- David Lavine as a journalist
-- Extras --
- Joe Cavaliere as a shirtless extra.
- Kevin Kulzer as hugging a watermelon in front of the motel extra.
- Dan Brown as an angry man in Blue Hat and Hornrimmed glasses
- Curtis Moran as a hippie with sunglasses.
- Anne Walker Laier as a hippie in the drum circle, hippie lying in garbage, and hippie at the mud slide scene.
- Ali Kellogg as the hippie frolicking in the field and leaving woodstock.
Production
Filming is taking place in Columbia County, in Upstate New York, and New York City.[7][8][9]
See also
External links
References
- ^ http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080731/LIVING/80730029/1004
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1127896/
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/Taking-Woodstock-Elliot-Tiber/dp/0757002935
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Michael Fleming (2008-08-05). "'Taking Woodstock' set to start". Variety Magazine. Retrieved 2008-09-01.
- ^ OK Go Newsletter, 10/10/08
- ^ McCaghren's Personal Blog, 11/10/08
- ^ http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/thursday/partii/ny-etmvbuzz5782060jul31,0,3397420.story
- ^ http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080731/LIVING/80730029/1004
- ^ http://www.cinematical.com/2008/04/23/ang-lee-signs-on-for-taking-woodstock/