Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
“A drug-fuelled road trip in the 60s”
2011•R•1h 47m•6.9•Released
DocumentaryMusic
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.
Director
Alison Ellwood
Writer
Alex Gibney, Alison Ellwood
Languages
English
Studio
A&E IndieFilms
Cast
Ken Kesey
Self
Jerry Garcia
Self (archive footage)
Neal Cassady
Self
Phil Lesh
Self (archive footage)
Bob Weir
Self (archive footage)
Production
Company
A&E IndieFilms
Company
Phoenix Wiley Productions
Company
Jigsaw Productions
Producer
Alex Gibney
Producer
Will Clarke
Producer
Alexandra Johnes
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