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Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place (2011)
Directed by Alison Ellwood, Alex Gibney
“A drug-fuelled road trip in the 60s”
Documentary, Music · 1h 47m
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.
Cast
Stanley Tucci
Narrator
Ken Kesey
Self
Jerry Garcia
Self (archive footage)
Neal Cassady
Self
Phil Lesh
Self (archive footage)
Bob Weir
Self (archive footage)
Timothy Leary
Self (archive footage)
Larry McMurtry
Self (archive footage)
Allen Ginsberg
Self (archive footage)
Jack Kerouac
Self (archive footage)
Ram Dass
Self (archive footage)
Crew
- Director
- Alison Ellwood, Alex Gibney
- Writer
- Alex Gibney, Alison Ellwood
- Original Music Composer
- David Kahne
- Editor
- Alison Ellwood
- Producer
- Alexandra Johnes, Will Clarke, Alex Gibney
Details
- Release date
- 2011-08-05
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Genres
- Documentary, Music
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- A&E IndieFilms, Phoenix Wiley Productions, Jigsaw Productions