Swank Motion Pictures, Inc.

Demetri Martin, Imelda Staunton, Emile Hirsch
Focus Features; Directed by Ang Lee
Rated R; 110 minutes; 2009

In the summer of 69, Eliot Tiber was working at his parents’ motel in the Catskills. Empowered by the gay rights movement of the time, Tiber heard about a concert that was planned and lobbied to have it take place near his motel in White Plains, New York. Soon half a million people were headed his way for an event called Woodstock.