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

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

2011
1h 47m
6.9

6.9/10

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"A drug-fuelled road trip in the 60s"

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.

Status: Released

Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Companies
A&E IndieFilms Phoenix Wiley Productions Jigsaw Productions
Production Countries
United States of America
Spoken Languages
English

Quick Facts

Release Date August 5, 2011
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt1235790
Website Visit Site

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)

Key Crew

Alison Ellwood
Director
Alex Gibney
Writer
Alex Gibney
Director
Molly Thompson
Executive Producer
Alison Ellwood
Writer
Alexandra Johnes
Producer
Will Clarke
Producer
David Kowitz
Executive Producer