
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place (2011)
6.9|5 Aug, 2011|107 min
A drug-fuelled road trip in the 60s
6.9|5 Aug, 2011|107 min
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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.
Keywords
biography
based on true story
road trip
woman director
Casts

Ken Kesey
Self

Jerry Garcia
Self (archive footage)

Neal Cassady
Self

Phil Lesh
Self (archive footage)

Bob Weir
Self (archive footage)
Crews

Alison Ellwood
Director

Alex Gibney
Writer

Alex Gibney
Director

Alison Ellwood
Writer

Alex Gibney
Producer

Molly Thompson
Executive Producer
Will Clarke
Producer

Alison Ellwood
Editor
David Kahne
Original Music Composer

Alexandra Johnes
Producer
David Kowitz
Executive Producer
David McKillop
Executive Producer
Robert Belau
Executive Producer

Gareth Wiley
Executive Producer
Backdrops & Posters
