SYNOPSIS

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 is 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 neighbouring 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 areon their way to his neighbour’s farm in White Lake, NY, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life, and popular culture, forever.


TRAILER


RELEASE DATE

November 13, 2009

DIRECTOR

Ang Lee

WRITER

James Schamus (screenplay), Elliot Tiber & Tom Monte (book)

COMPANY

Universal Pictures

GENRE

Comedy, Music

CERT

15

RUNTIME

110 minutes

IMAGES