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  • 2014
  • TV-14
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2014
  • TV-14
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 37 m

Summary Aspiring singer, Catherine Brown (Allison Miller), finds herself living a life she never imagined. Stuck at a dead end job in New York City at a mega music label, Catherine spends her days as the wrangler for the label’s most difficult star (Brittany Snow). But when Catherine is unceremoniously fired, and then comes home to find her lon...

Directed By: Rita Merson

Written By: Rita Merson

  • 2014
  • TV-14
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2014
  • TV-14
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 37 m

Always Woodstock

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary Aspiring singer, Catherine Brown (Allison Miller), finds herself living a life she never imagined. Stuck at a dead end job in New York City at a mega music label, Catherine spends her days as the wrangler for the label’s most difficult star (Brittany Snow). But when Catherine is unceremoniously fired, and then comes home to find her lon...

Directed By: Rita Merson

Written By: Rita Merson

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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11% Positive
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33% Mixed
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56% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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70
Nov 11, 2014
The rom-com elements don't always work, and the conclusion is a bit pat, but Always Woodstock is never less than charming and funny along the way.
By Sherilyn Connelly FULL REVIEW
50
Nov 13, 2014
Unfortunately, Merson clutters her sometimes soulful, sensitive story with too many formulaic contrivances to impede Catherine's personal and professional progress.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW
40
Nov 15, 2014
Even by its genre’s comfort-food standards, this movie feels blandly circumscribed, almost child-proofed, as if any sharper reality or wit might be harmful to the intended audience.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
38
Nov 11, 2014
As instantly forgettable as the pleasant but unremarkable tunes Miller, Sagal and assorted soundtrack artists sing during the film.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
30
Nov 14, 2014
With its faux small-town values, faux countercultural ethos and faux personal struggles, Rita Merson’s debut feature skews closer to delusion than honesty.
By Sheri Linden FULL REVIEW
20
Nov 13, 2014
The film uses its setting as lazy shorthand: for the nostalgia of lost childhood, the virtues of independence, and the spiritual purity of acoustic rock. And the hero unearths all this meaning while only having to interact with one person older than 30.
By Andrew Lapin FULL REVIEW
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Nov 9, 2014
The filmmakers play Catherine's disgustingly narcissistic sense of entitlement as endemic to the supposedly girl-next-door charms befitting the film's thoroughly normative gender politics.
By Clayton Dillard FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Primary Wave Entertainment, Sunrise Films (II)
Release Date Nov 14, 2014
Duration 1 h 37 m
Rating TV-14
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