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Taking Woodstock
TAIWAN · 2009

Taking Woodstock

Ang Lee
coming of age music festival 1960s counterculture family business social upheaval
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Synopsis

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 millio

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