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Directed by Ang Lee
Screenplay by
James Schamus
Based on the book by
Elliot Tiber
with Tom Monte
Cast: Demetri Martin, Dan Fogler, Henry Goodman, Jonathan Groff, Eugene Levy, Jeffrey Dean Morgan,
Imelda Staunton, with Emile Hirsch and Liev Schreiber
Rated R for graphic nudity, some sexual content, drug use and language.
Screenplay by
James Schamus
Based on the book by
Elliot Tiber
with Tom Monte
Cast: Demetri Martin, Dan Fogler, Henry Goodman, Jonathan Groff, Eugene Levy, Jeffrey Dean Morgan,
Imelda Staunton, with Emile Hirsch and Liev Schreiber
Rated R for graphic nudity, some sexual content, drug use and language.
Opened 8-28-09
Every summer Elliot helps his parents run their rundown upstate New York motel during the busy season including a classical music festival on the grounds. The motel is facing foreclosure and they need a good summer. While reading the paper he finds out that a music festival lost its permit in a nearby town. He sees it as an opportunity to fill the motel for a week so he calls the organizers and offers it to them as a headquarters. The concert organizers led by Michael, a hippy who arrives by helicopter and later rides a horse around the grounds, like what they see, book the motel and rent a neighbors farm for the actual festival. It appears to be perfect - Elliot has a permit for a music festival and Michael has a festival looking for a home. Elliot’s parents aren’t sure about it and the town is dead set against it but the money is too good. The organizers make Elliot the local press liaison and during an interview he inadvertently says the concert is free causing a food of people to descend on the small town. It is based on a book about the true story of how the concert that defined a generation came to be as seen through Elliot and his family’s eyes. We never actually see the concert but it’s the behind the scenes machinations that are the real story. The cast is good but there is something missing, the pace is slow with some humor but we never feel the magnitude of the event. I guess you had to be there.
(c) 2008 - 9 David Ramsey All Rights Reserved.
© 2009 Focus Features.
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