Taiwan Synopsis
“A generation began in his backyard.”
The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers thinking he could drum up some much-needed business for his parents' run-down motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor’s farm in White Lake, New York, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life–and American culture–forever.
Audience Engagement
401 audience reviews — more than 99% of Taiwan films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 93th percentile among Taiwan films.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Taking Woodstock. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From Focus Features
The 2008–2010 Taiwan Window
Taking Woodstock holds position #14 of 21 Taiwan films in the 2008–2010 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2000s Taiwan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2000s in Taiwan, 31 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Taking Woodstock premiered alongside 5 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 2h 0m runtime, production spent $250K per minute on screen and earned $83K per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 5 other Taiwan films in 2009.
The 71st Taiwan title from Taiwan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1972).
Our Taiwan catalog contains 174 titles in total (149 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Taking Woodstock, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- music festival · 4
- woodstock · 1
- new york · 1
- dog tag · 1
- catskills · 1
- 1960s · 20
- based on novel or book · 288
- biography · 75
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #117 of 174 Taiwan films indexed here (33rd percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -0.4 points below the Taiwan average of 6.6/10.
Production Details
| Primary Country | Taiwan |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Taiwan, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Production Companies | Focus Features, Haishang Films, Taking Woodstock |
| Runtime | 2h 0m |
| Release Date | August 26, 2009 |
| IMDb | tt1127896 |
| Official Site | www.takingwoodstockthemovie.co.uk |