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"Taking Woodstock" - Official Trailer [HQ HD]

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Wow...this trailer is moving - it's how history was made.
Coming to theaters on August 28, 2009.
Starring: Demetri Martin, Emile Hirsch, Dan Fogler, Henry Goodman, Jonathan Groff, Eugene Levy

Taking Woodstock is the new film from Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee - and its a trip! Based on the memoirs of Elliot Tiber, the comedy stars Demetri Martin as Elliot, who inadvertently played a role in making 1969s Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the famed happening it was. Featuring a standout ensemble cast, and songs from a score of 60s musical icons including The Grateful Dead, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and Country Joe and the Fish - plus a new recording of Freedom from Richie Havens - Taking Woodstock is a joyous voyage to a moment in time when everything seemed possible. Working as an interior designer in Greenwich Village, Elliot feels empowered by the gay rights movement. But he is also still staked to the family business - a dumpy Catskills motel called the El Monaco that is being run into the ground by his overbearing parents, Jake and Sonia Teichberg (Henry Goodman and Imelda Staunton). In the summer of 1969, Elliot has to move back upstate to the El Monaco in order to help save the motel from being taken over by the bank. Upon hearing that a planned music and arts festival has lost its permit from the neighboring town of Wallkill, NY, Elliot calls producer Michael Lang (Jonathan Groff) at Woodstock Ventures to offer his familys motel to the promoters and generate some much-needed business. Elliot also introduces Lang to his neighbor Max Yasgur (Eugene Levy), who operates a 600-acre dairy farm down the road. Soon the Woodstock staff is moving into the El Monaco - and half a million people are on their way to Yasgurs farm for 3 days of Peace & Music in White Lake. With a little help from his friends, including theater troupe leader Devon (Dan Fogler), recently returned Vietnam veteran Billy (Emile Hirsch), and cross-dressing ex-Marine Vilma (Liev Schreiber) - and with a little opposition from townspeople, including Billys brother Dan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) - Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life - and popular culture - forever.

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  • All who remember Woodstock wasn't there.

  • Woodstock every year in Poland! :D 

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  • I wish i could live in that time.

  • Is ROBERT DINERO the dad?!

  • I wish I was alive during that time. Oh man how I despise being born in 91.

  • Until 1:34 I was thinking: "Where the fuck is Emile Hirsch?", hahaha. 

  • @emvir8gto8 " Przystanek Woodstock" is a huge summer music festival held in the beginning of August in Kostrzyn on the Oder, Poland. :))

  • I like this so much.

  • Shit shit shit is that Jesse St James? I friggin love Jonathan Groff!

  • @DomxWariatow what do you mean?

  • @dtbjjrb great movie

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