Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
2011
6.8 (28)
1 hr 47 min
English
A drug-fuelled road trip in the 60s
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Production
- A&E IndieFilms, Phoenix Wiley Productions, Jigsaw Productions
Keywords
- biography
- based on true story
- road trip
- woman director
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Top Cast
Ken Kesey as Self
Jerry Garcia as Self (archive footage)
Neal Cassady as Self
Phil Lesh as Self (archive footage)
Bob Weir as Self (archive footage)
Top Crew
Alison Ellwood · Director, Writer
Alex Gibney · Director, Writer
David Kahne · Composer
Alexandra Johnes · Producer
Will Clarke · Producer
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