
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
2011 • Documentary | Music
6.9 (27)
Alison Ellwood
Director
Alex Gibney
Director
Alex Gibney
Writer
Alison Ellwood
Writer
Status
Released
Release date
August 5, 2011
Duration
107 Min
Language
en
Popularity
0.208
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
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.
Cast

Ken Kesey

Jerry Garcia

Neal Cassady

Phil Lesh

Bob Weir