I liked this movie

Agreed. This was a wonderful movie. Getting to see an unseen side of a story of people who believed in love and hope and peace. A mob who were polite and helpful and caring. I loved the scene at the end when most had left and a group remained to clean up the mess that had been made. Then there was the mud-surfing scene where we got to see a brotherhood between Elliott and Billy. The ongoing kindness of Tisha (Mamie Gumer). The strength and pride of Vilma (Liev Schreiber). The freedom and joy of Elliott's parents after the four brownies breakfast! :-D How Elliott stood up for what he thought was good for his town in spite of the horrific hatred and negatives of its townpeople.

This movie was a definite treasure I lucked into after browsing the DVD collection at the library. :-)

Why do you ask these questions? What is there not to like?

I must say, I more than enjoyed this flick, it's wonderful and funny, it made me feel good and that's a powerful thing a movie can do (most movies cannot).

So I'd recommend this flick for everyone who's interested in Woodstock, in hippies, in love & peace, in a good and friendly movie.



"I don't discriminate between entertainment
and arthouse. A film is a goddam film."

I liked it quite a bit as well. The hatred of the film expressed on this board has been shown to be partially based on misinformation. People want more music? Do these people realize how expensive some of the music from Woodstock is? I imagine they paid a ton for the first few bars of the Grateful Dead's China Cat Sunflower.

The film shows a small portion of what Woodstack was. I found it to be entertaining and warm. Elliot's parents were a riot.

Good movie. Not heavy, but a breezy, light, wonderful mood piece.

The movie started off with humor and then, for us, dragged a bit with scenes of acid tripping and romanticized drugged brownie escapades, receiving maybe a little too much attention. We were almost there. Not actually at Woodstock, but traveling in New York state in our old van, just back from a reconnaissance trip into Canada. We stopped at the highway intersection where we would have to turn to proceed toward the "famous festival of peace and love" that we heard about on the radio. We looked at each other and our sleeping five week old daughter, and said "probably not a good idea". After watching several Woodstock documentaries and this drama, we are sure we made the right decision to continue south toward home. This film wasn't so much about the music but the challenge of pulling the whole thing off. We rate it a 6/10.