Taking Woodstock

Taking Woodstock
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAng Lee
Screenplay byJames Schamus
Based onTaking Woodstock
by Elliot Tiber
Tom Monte
Produced byJames Schamus
Ang Lee
Celia Costas
StarringDemetri Martin
Paul Dano
Dan Fogler
Henry Goodman
Jonathan Groff
Emile Hirsch
Eugene Levy
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Imelda Staunton
Liev Schreiber
CinematographyEric Gautier
Edited byTim Squyres
Music byDanny Elfman
Distributed byFocus Features
Release date
  • August 28, 2009 (2009-08-28)
Running time
120 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$30 million[2]
Box office$10 million[2]

Taking Woodstock is a 2009 American historical musical comedy-drama film about the Woodstock Festival of 1969, directed by Ang Lee. The screenplay by James Schamus is based on the memoir Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert and a Life by Elliot Tiber and Tom Monte.[3]

The film premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival,[4] and opened in New York and Los Angeles on August 26, 2009, before its wide theatrical release two days later. It received mixed reviews and was a box office failure.

  1. ^ "TAKING WOODSTOCK (15)". British Board of Film Classification. August 12, 2009. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference mojo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Novikov, Eugene (April 23, 2008). "Ang Lee Signs On for 'Taking Woodstock'". Cinematical.com. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
  4. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Taking Woodstock". festival-Cannes.com. Retrieved May 9, 2009.