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

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

A drug-fuelled road trip in the 60s

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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.

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  • Release Date: 2011-08-05
  • Runtime: 1h 47min
  • Directors: Alison Ellwood, Alex Gibney.

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    • Cast

    • Ken Kesey

      Self

    • Jerry Garcia

      Self (archive footage)

    • Neal Cassady

      Self

    • Phil Lesh

      Self (archive footage)

    • Bob Weir

      Self (archive footage)

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