Taking Woodstock (2009)

Release date: 2009-08-28
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Ang Lee
Production Co: Focus Features
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Music
Rating: 6.7/10
Length: 2h

Storyline

A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.

Plot Keywords

male full frontal nudity, lsd, marijuana, hippie, year 1969, female nudity, male nudity, male frontal nudity, female frontal nudity, female full frontal nudity, music festival, concert, musician, resort, guitar, anti war, rock 'n' roll, bare chested male, family relationships, volkswagen bus

Short Review

Some will call his Woodstock naive, but that's what he intends: the movie is a sweet, anecdotal, comic embrace, a gentle reminder that it was once possible to overcome the cynicism of the times and believe that "the flow" leads in a benign direction.