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2009 Certificate 15
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It is 1969, and Elliot Tiber, a failing interior designer in Greenwich Village, New York, has moved back home to help his parents run their dilapidated motel. The bank is about to foreclose; his father wants to burn the place down, but hasn't paid the insurance; and Elliot is still deciding how to "come out" to his parents. .. Read more

Starring Demetri Martin, Imelda Staunton, Henry Goodman, Jonathan Groff
Director Ang Lee
Genres Comedy, Music/Musical

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Taking Woodstock

It is 1969, and Elliot Tiber, a failing interior designer in Greenwich Village, New York, has moved back home to help his parents run their dilapidated motel. The bank is about to foreclose; his father wants to burn the place down, but hasn't paid the insurance; and Elliot is still deciding how to "come out" to his parents.

When Elliot hears that a nearby town has withdrawn the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the organisers, thinking he could drum up some business for the motel. Three weeks later, half a million people turn up at his neighbour's farm and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life, and American culture, forever.

Starring Demetri Martin, Imelda Staunton, Henry Goodman, Jonathan Groff, Emile Hirsch, Eugene Levy, Dan Fogler, Adam LeFevre, Kevin Chamberlain, Kelli Garner, Paul Dano, Estelle Harris, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Boris McGiver, Clark Middleton, Liev Schre, Liev Schreiber, Imelda Stau
Director Ang Lee
Studio UNIVERSAL PICTURES
Run time DVD: 1 hr 50 mins
Blu-ray: 2 hrs
Certificate Certificate 15
Genres Comedy, Music/Musical
Language DVD: English
Blu-ray: English
Released DVD: Unavailable for rental
Blu-ray: Unavailable for rental
Production year: 2009
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    Read an interview with the director hereAfter the back-to-back bleakness of Brokeback Mountain and Lust,... read more on Time Out

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    Lee's kids urged him to take drugs

    • 29 Oct 2009

    Oscar-winning moviemaker Ang Lee was stunned when his kids told him to try drugs to make his new Taking Woodstock movie more authentic. The director's new film is based on the iconic 1969 Woodstock music festival in New York and features a psychedelic sequence with characters high on hallucinogenic LSD. Lee admits he has never taken drugs and was stunned when his sons, aged 25 and 19, suggested he try an acid trip - but he refused. He says, "I'm almost embarrassed to say I've never taken LSD... Read more

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