Taking Woodstock vs The Stories
The Stories has the higher audience score (7.4/10 against 6.2/10 for Taking Woodstock). The Stories is the shorter watch at 1h 41m compared with 2h . Taking Woodstock is the older of the two (2009 against 2026). Both are comedy, drama, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Taking Woodstock
The Stories| Taking Woodstock | The Stories | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.2/10 | ★ 7.4/10 |
| Year | 2009 | 2026 |
| Length | 2h | 1h 41m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Music | Comedy, Drama, Music |
| Country | – | Egypt |
| Director | Ang Lee | Abu Bakr Shawky |
| Main cast | Jonathan Groff, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Paul Dano, Liev Schreiber, Imelda Staunton | Nelly Karim, Amir El-Masry, Valerie Pachner, Amr Abed, Ahmed Kamal |
Synopsis
Taking Woodstock
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…
The Stories
The Stories is a decades-spanning Egyptian family saga and love story set between the late 1960s and 1980s. The film follows Ahmed, a young man from a Middle-Class Cairo family who dreams of becoming a concert pianist. During the tense summer of 1967, as war looms over Egypt, he begins a pen-pal correspondence with an Austrian woman named Elizabeth (“Liz”). A semi-autobiographical film based on the director's parents and how they met.
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