CinemaOSMovie · 2011 · 1h 47m · R
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place

A drug-fuelled road trip in the 60s

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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.

Directed byAlison Ellwood, Alex Gibney

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 47m
Language
EN
Released
August 5, 2011
Studios
A&E IndieFilmsJigsaw ProductionsPhoenix Wiley Productions

Featuring

Cast & crew

5 credited
Starring
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)

Creative team
Directed by
Alison Ellwood
Alison Ellwood
Alex Gibney
Alex Gibney
Written by
Alex Gibney
Alex Gibney
Alison Ellwood
Alison Ellwood
Produced by
Alex Gibney
Alex Gibney
Will Clarke

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