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

Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
★ 6.8/10•2011•1h 47m•R•Documentary•Music

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.

Alison Ellwood · Director

Alex Gibney · Director

Alex Gibney · Writer

Alison Ellwood · Writer

StatusReleased
Runtime1h 47m
LanguageEN
Release DateAug 5, 2011

Actors

Stanley Tucci

Stanley Tucci

Narrator

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)

Timothy Leary

Timothy Leary

Self (archive footage)

Larry McMurtry

Larry McMurtry

Self (archive footage)

Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

Self (archive footage)

Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac

Self (archive footage)

Ram Dass

Ram Dass

Self (archive footage)

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