A generation began in his backyard. From Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), comes Taking Woodstock, a new comedy inspired by the true story of Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin) and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was.
It's 1969, and Elliot Tiber, a down-on-his-luck interior designer in Greenwich Village, New York, has to move back upstate to help his parents run their dilapidated Catskills motel, The El Monaco. The bank's about to foreclose, his father wants to burn the place down but hasn't paid the insurance, and Elliot is still figuring how to come out to his parents.
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 the motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor's farm in White Lake, NY, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life, and American culture, forever. [D-Man2010]
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Taking Woodstock
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How Could We Know
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Jamie Dunlap:
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Stoned on the Range
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No Love, No Nothin'
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Maggie M'Gill
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No Escape
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Motherless Child
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One More Mile
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Do Wah Diddy Diddy
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Wooden Ships
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Flutes, Bongos & Limbos
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The Flute & Bongo Sizzle
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Handsome Johnny
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High Flyin' Bird
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Beautiful People
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Coming into Los Angeles
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America
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If I Were a Carpenter
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Red Telephone
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Mind Flowers
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Raga Manj Khamaj
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Sweet Sir Galahad
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I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag
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I Shall Be Released
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Going Up the Country
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Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
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Essen
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Can't Find My Way Home
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Volunteers
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Freedom (2009)
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Wispy Paisley Skies
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Freedom - 2009 (Richard Havens)
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Danny Elfman:
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Taking Woodstock Titles
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Danny Elfman:
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Wooden Ships (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
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Danny Elfman:
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China Cat Sunflower - Live (Grateful Dead)
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Danny Elfman:
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Maggie M'Gill (The Doors)
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Danny Elfman:
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Elliot's Place
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Danny Elfman:
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Coming Into los Angeles - Live (Canned Heat)
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Danny Elfman:
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I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag (Country Joe McDonald)
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Danny Elfman:
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Going Up the Country - Live (Canned Heat)
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Danny Elfman:
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Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) - Live (Janis Joplin)
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Danny Elfman:
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A Happening (Office #2)
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Danny Elfman:
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The Red Telephone (Love)
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Danny Elfman:
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Beautiful People - Live (Melanie)
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Danny Elfman:
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I Shall Be Released - Live (The Band)
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Danny Elfman:
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Perspective Extended
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Danny Elfman:
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One More Mile (The Paul Butterfield Blues Band)
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Danny Elfman:
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Volunteers (Jefferson Airplane)
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Danny Elfman:
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At Ease Man
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Danny Elfman:
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Welcome Home
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Danny Elfman:
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The Magic Tickets
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Danny Elfman:
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Get the Money
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Danny Elfman:
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Chocolate Milk
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Danny Elfman:
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Groovy Thing (Office, Pt. 1)
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Danny Elfman:
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A Happening (Office, Pt. 2)
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Danny Elfman:
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Groove Thing (Guitar Solo)
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Danny Elfman:
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Life Goes On (No Harmonics)
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The Acid Trip
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Danny Elfman:
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Hash Brownies
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Danny Elfman:
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In the Mud
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Danny Elfman:
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I Love Her
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Danny Elfman:
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Woodstock Wildtrack #1
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Danny Elfman:
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Woodstock Wildtrack #2
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Danny Elfman:
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Freedom
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Danny Elfman:
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Taking Woodstock Titles (Danny Elfman)
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Danny Elfman:
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China Cat Sunflower
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Danny Elfman:
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Elliot's Place (Danny Elfman)
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Danny Elfman:
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I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag
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Danny Elfman:
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Try
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Danny Elfman:
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A Happening
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Danny Elfman:
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Perspective Extended (Danny Elfman)
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Danny Elfman:
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Taking Woodstock - Titles
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Danny Elfman:
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Groovy Thing - Office #1
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Danny Elfman:
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A Happening - Office #2
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Danny Elfman:
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Groovy Thing - Guitar Solo
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Danny Elfman:
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Life Goes On
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Danny Elfman:
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Happy Guitars - CD Only
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Danny Elfman:
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Guitar Improv - CD Only
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Danny Elfman:
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Maggie M'Gill (The Doors)
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Danny Elfman:
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Elliot's Place
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Danny Elfman:
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I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag (Country Joe McDonald)
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Danny Elfman:
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Elliot's Place (Danny Elfman)
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Danny Elfman:
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I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag
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Danny Elfman:
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