‘Taking Woodstock’ Trailer

I’m not quite sure what I think about this trailer or about this project in general.   The idea of Ang Lee directing a comedy about Woodstock doesn’t seem all that appealing.   From the trailer, the film looks like a pretty straight comedy.

The film follows the life of Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin) an aspiring Greenwich Village interior designer whose parents owned a small motel in Upstate New York and at the time held the only musical festival permit in the entire town of Bethel, New York. Tiber offered both the motel and the permit to the Woodstock Festival’s organizers.

The film also focuses on Tiber’s life as a closeted gay man hiding his marijuana as well as sexual orientation from his family, and his self-discovery following the Stonewall Riots.

Check it out right here:

‘Taking Woodstock’ comes out on August 14th, 2009.

Source: Youtube