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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 50 Passes to ‘Taking Woodstock’ Chicago Screening With Emile Hirsch
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on August 24, 2009 - 10:50pm
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The movie poster for “Taking Woodstock” with Emile Hirsch, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Paul Dano.
Image credit: Focus Features
What’s the most euphoric/trippy experience you can recall?
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CHICAGO – In our latest trippy edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two passes up for grabs to the highly anticipated Chicago screening of “Taking Woodstock” from Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (“Brokeback Mountain” and “Sense and Sensibility”). “Taking Woodstock” stars Emile Hirsch, Liev Schreiber, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Dan Fogler, Demetri Martin, Paul Dano, Henry Goodman, Jonathan Groff and Eugene Levy.
To win your free pass to the advance screening of “Taking Woodstock” in Chicago courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, all you need to do is answer our question below. That’s it! The screening will be held on Aug. 27, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter this Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.
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Here is the “Taking Woodstock” plot description:
“Taking Woodstock” is the new film from Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee – and it’s a trip! Based on the memoirs of Elliot Tiber, the comedy stars Demetri Martin as Elliot who inadvertently played a role in making 1969’s Woodstock Music & Arts Festival into the famed happening it was.
Featuring a standout ensemble cast and songs from a score of 1960s musical icons including The Grateful Dead, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane and Country Joe and the Fish (along with a new recording of “Freedom” from Richie Havens), “Taking Woodstock” is a joyous voyage to a moment in time when everything seemed possible.
Working as an interior designer in Greenwich Village, Elliot feels empowered by the gay rights movement. But he is also still staked to the family business: a dumpy Catskills motel called the El Monaco that is being run into the ground by his overbearing parents, Jake and Sonia Teichberg (Henry Goodman and Imelda Staunton). In the summer of 1969, Elliot has to move back upstate to the El Monaco in order to help save the motel from being taken over by the bank.
Upon hearing that a planned music and arts festival has lost its permit from the neighboring town of Wallkill, N.Y., Elliot calls producer Michael Lang (Jonathan Groff) at Woodstock Ventures to offer his family’s motel to the promoters and generate some much-needed business. Elliot also introduces Lang to his neighbor, Max Yasgur (Eugene Levy), who operates a 600-acre dairy farm down the road.
Soon the Woodstock staff is moving into the El Monaco and half a million people are on their way to Yasgur’s farm for “three days of peace and music in White Lake”.
With a little help from his friends including theater troupe leader Devon (Dan Fogler), recently returned Vietnam veteran Billy (Emile Hirsch) and cross-dressing ex-Marine Vilma (Liev Schreiber) – and with a little opposition from townspeople including Billy’s brother, Dan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) – Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life and popular culture forever.
“Taking Woodstock” is a Focus Features presentation of an Ang Lee film starring Demetri Martin, Dan Fogler, Henry Goodman, Jonathan Groff, Eugene Levy, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Imelda Staunton with Emile Hirsch and Liev Schreiber.
Casting by Avy Kaufman. Costume designer is Joseph G. Aulisi. Music supervisor is Joe Boyd. Music by Danny Elfman. Editor is Tim Squyres. Production designer is David Gropman. Director of photography is Eric Gautier. Based on the Book by Elliot Tiber with Tom Monte. Executive producer is Michael Hausman. Produced by James Schamus, Ang Lee and Celia Costas. Screenplay by James Schamus. Directed by Ang Lee.
The “Taking Woodstock” movie trailer can be watched now below.
To secure your free tickets now, make sure you’re logged into your HollywoodChicago.com account. If you don’t yet have one, you can quickly register here. Having an account with a valid e-mail address is required. Then, simply add a new comment in the form below. In your comment, include an answer to this simple question:
Like all Hookups here, this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup is simple: Just submit your comment below and we will award 50 people randomly via e-mail. Winners needs to arrive early as seats are consumed on a first-come, first-served basis. “Taking Woodstock” opens on Aug. 28, 2009.
 | By ADAM FENDELMAN |
Most Trippy Experience
Ate mushrooms in college - I got so distracted by the streetlights that I followed them three miles off campus.
Trippy Wood.
the most euphoric/trippy experience ive ever had was when i lost my virginity.
There were brownies and
There were brownies and aliens and probes, oh my!
Taking Woodstock
Spinning on the Mushroom Ride at Kiddieland a very long time ago when I was a kid.
My friends and I kept turning the wheel to spin faster and faster. We were all having so much fun laughing and spinning so fast…until midway through the ride. After that it wasn’t pretty. Sick and ‘pukey’ for the rest of the day.
But the first part of the ride was so much fun that it was worth it.
Taking Woodstock Passes
A friend and I stayed awake for 3 nights straight to finish our school projects then both of us took a Vivarin pill to cram for a calculus test on the morning of the 4th day awake. We both walked to class and sat down next to each other. I all of a sudden felt like I was having an out of body experience and felt like I was flying/floating around. I didn’t say anything to my friend because I didn’t want to freak him out. Then after a couple of minutes of me trying to gather myself, my friend asks me, “Do you feel like you’re flying?” I said yes and we started to laugh about it and said we were never doing that again. Worst part was nearing the end of the calculus exam I found myself writing song lyrics on the exam. Thank goodness the exam was done with a pencil. Each time I caught myself writing lyrics, I erased it. Hopefully I erased all of it. Best part of it was I passed the class!
Trippiest Moment
There’s an old European woman that visits me at work and asks me for help. One day as she was leaving my office she stopped, looked back at me, pointed at my face, and in a guttural voice said - “Don’t abandon me. Don’t abandon me.” That night I saw the trailer for Drag Me To Hell where the old woman puts a curse on the girl. It tripped me out so much I nearly fell off my chair!
trippy
Where ever loud music is blasting at me from a huge speaker at some large venue.
Demetri Martin
When i saw Demetri Martin live i was out of my mind and because i was sitting in the front row i actually thought i was floating above the crowd and listening to their reactions
I can't wait to see this movie!!!!
The most euphoric experience I’ve ever had was seeing Daft Punk at Lollapalooza. They were amazing and it definitely blew my mind.
Trippy
The most exciting experience i had was meeting Ozzy Osbourne one night after a concert i was 16 n i thought he was so cool. He was throwing up i nsome bushes and when i walked by he said Hey kid, I about passed out.