Synopsis
When Neurotic, struggling songwriter, Catherine Brown's life in New York City falls apart, she is forced to confront her past when she spends the summer at her childhood home in Woodstock.
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Cast
- Allison MillerCatherine Brown
- James WolkNoah Bernstein
- Katey SagalLee Ann
- Rumer WillisEmily
- Brittany SnowJody
- Ryan GuzmanDylan
- Jason RitterGarret
- Alexie GilmoreSally
- Richard RiehleMr. Harmon
- Anna SchaferRyan
Recommendations
- 70
Village Voice
The rom-com elements don't always work, and the conclusion is a bit pat, but Always Woodstock is never less than charming and funny along the way. - 50
Observer
The movie, which has all the freshness and insight of a Movie of the Week on the Hallmark channel, is a first for the writer-director, which probably accounts for its lack of any definitive style or focus. - 50
Los Angeles Times
Unfortunately, Merson clutters her sometimes soulful, sensitive story with too many formulaic contrivances to impede Catherine's personal and professional progress. - 40
Variety
Even by its genre’s comfort-food standards, this movie feels blandly circumscribed, almost child-proofed, as if any sharper reality or wit might be harmful to the intended audience. - 38
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
As instantly forgettable as the pleasant but unremarkable tunes Miller, Sagal and assorted soundtrack artists sing during the film. - 30
The New York Times
This is a movie that runs on magical thinking. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
With its faux small-town values, faux countercultural ethos and faux personal struggles, Rita Merson’s debut feature skews closer to delusion than honesty. - 20
The Dissolve
The film uses its setting as lazy shorthand: for the nostalgia of lost childhood, the virtues of independence, and the spiritual purity of acoustic rock. And the hero unearths all this meaning while only having to interact with one person older than 30.
