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 million people are on their way to his neighbor’s farm in White Lake, New York, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life–and American culture–forever.
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Cast
- Demetri MartinElliot Teichberg
- Imelda StauntonSonia Teichberg
- Henry GoodmanJake Teichberg
- Liev SchreiberWilma
- Jonathan GroffMichael Lang
- Eugene LevyMax Yasgur
- Emile HirschBilly
- Paul DanoVW Guy
- Kelli GarnerVW Girl
- Jeffrey Dean MorganDan
Recommendations
- 70
The Hollywood Reporter
It's a low-wattage film about a high-wattage event. Which is somewhat disappointing, though you do get a thoughtful, playful, often amusing film about what happened backstage at one of the '60s' great happenings. - 70
The New York Times
This likable, humane movie is not an attempt to recreate the epochal Woodstock Music and Art Fair captured in Michael Wadleigh’s documentary “Woodstock.” It is essentially a small, intimate film into which is fitted a peripheral view of the landmark event. - 63
USA Today
This is Woodstock from another perspective -- one without Jimi Hendrix or Janis Joplin. - 63
ReelViews
The movie hits its stride when it deals directly with the concert. The more peripheral Elliot is to the story, the better things become. - 50
The New Yorker
You can’t deny the smiling mood that wafts through the film like incense, and to that extent it honors the original three days; but not once does a character’s show of feeling stir you, send you, or stop you in your tracks, and the loss is unsustainable. - 50
Variety
The picture serves up intermittent pleasures but is too raggedy and laid-back for its own good, its images evaporating nearly as soon as they hit the screen. - 50
Los Angeles Times
It's a frustrating complication of a movie with a sprawling story and grand ambitions -- and some truly grand acting -- that stumbles almost as often as it soars. Bummer. - 40
Village Voice
Little music from the concert itself is heard. On display instead are inane, occasionally borderline offensive portrayals of Jews, performance artists, trannies, Vietnam vets, squares, and freaks.
