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

"A drug-fuelled road trip in the 60s"

Aug 5 2011 R 1h 47m
Documentary

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.

Plot

A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters' fabled road trip across America.

Written by

Alex Gibney, Alison Ellwood, Ken Kesey

Directed by

Alison Ellwood, Alex Gibney

Cast

Stanley Tucci, Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

A&E IndieFilms, Phoenix Wiley

Languages

English

Awards

1 nomination

Scores
# of Votes
1,755
Average Rating
6.8 out of 10
Metascore
59
Popularity
NA