Taking Woodstock

When a hardworking gay artist (Demtri Martin) and interior designer in New York City learns that a rundown Catskills motel operated by his overbearing, aging parents (Imelda Staunton and Henry Goodman) is at risk of foreclosure in 1969 in this factually inspired, well-acted, star-filled (Emile Hirsch, Liev Schreiber, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Dan Fogler, et al.) Ang Lee film, which was disappointing only for its lack of concert footage, he expands his annual, low-key music festival by cooperating with Woodstock promoters (Jonathan Groff, et al.) and encouraging his opportunistic neighbor (Eugene Levy) to rent his 600-acre dairy farm in White Lake for the famous and infamous August festival, which ended up being attended by more than 450,000 music-loving, free-spirited hippies (Paul Dano, et al.).
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