Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place

Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place

A drug-fuelled road trip in the 60s

6.9107 min
DocumentaryMusic

Overview

A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster’s fabled road trip across America in the legendary Magic Bus. In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” set off on a legendary, LSD-fuelled cross-country road trip to the New York World’s Fair. He was joined by “The Merry Band of Pranksters,” a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers, including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac’s “On the Road,” and the driver and painter of the psychedelic Magic Bus.

Movie Info

Release Date: 8/5/2011

Runtime: 107 min

Director: Alison Ellwood

Writers: Alex Gibney, Alison Ellwood

Top Cast

Ken Kesey

Ken Kesey

Self

Jerry Garcia

Jerry Garcia

Self (archive footage)

Neal Cassady

Neal Cassady

Self

Phil Lesh

Phil Lesh

Self (archive footage)

Bob Weir

Bob Weir

Self (archive footage)

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