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

Movie·2011·1h 47m

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

A drug-fuelled road trip in the 60s

Country

United States of America

Language

English

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The Story

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.

Producer

Alex Gibney, Molly Thompson

Music

David Kahne

Editor

Alison Ellwood

Themes

biographybased on true storyroad tripwoman director

Production House

A&E IndieFilms
Phoenix Wiley Productions
Jigsaw Productions

Audience Score

69%

27 votes

Skip10%
Timepass24%
Go for it38%
Perfection28%

Where to watch

Region: US

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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)

// crew

Crew

Alison Ellwood

Alison Ellwood

Director, Writer, Editor

Alex Gibney

Alex Gibney

Writer, Director, Producer

Molly Thompson

Molly Thompson

Executive Producer

Will Clarke

Producer

David Kahne

Original Music Composer

Alexandra Johnes

Alexandra Johnes

Producer

David Kowitz

Executive Producer

David McKillop

Executive Producer

Robert Belau

Executive Producer

Gareth Wiley

Gareth Wiley

Executive Producer

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