

Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
"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.
Movie Details
Languages
English
Studio
A&E IndieFilms
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Key Crew

Alison Ellwood
Director

Alex Gibney
Writer

Alex Gibney
Director

Molly Thompson
Executive Producer

Alison Ellwood
Writer

Alexandra Johnes
Producer

Alex Gibney
Producer

Gareth Wiley
Executive Producer
Cast

Ken Kesey
Self

Jerry Garcia
Self (archive footage)

Neal Cassady
Self

Phil Lesh
Self (archive footage)

Bob Weir
Self (archive footage)