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Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
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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Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place was released August 5, 2011. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.
Synopsis
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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Cast
Ken KeseySelf
Jerry GarciaSelf (archive footage)
Neal CassadySelf
Phil LeshSelf (archive footage)
Bob WeirSelf (archive footage)Credits
- Directed by
- Alex Gibney, Alison Ellwood
- Written by
- Alex Gibney, Alison Ellwood
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
Production
A&E IndieFilmsUnited States- Phoenix Wiley ProductionsUnited Kingdom
Jigsaw ProductionsUnited States