Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place (2011)

08/05/2011 (US) • 1h 47m

Documentary, Music

A drug-fuelled road trip in the 60s

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

Jerry Garcia

Self (archive footage)

Phil Lesh

Self (archive footage)

Bob Weir

Self (archive footage)


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

biography

based on true story

road trip

woman director

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