Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
“A drug-fuelled road trip in the 60s”
6.9
2011
1h 47m
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.
Key Crew
Director
Alison Ellwood
Producers
Alexandra Johnes
Will Clarke
Alex Gibney
Writers
Alex Gibney
Alison Ellwood
Music
David Kahne
Cast (5)
Ken Kesey
Self
Jerry Garcia
Self (archive footage)
