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

20116.9 / 10107 min
Documentary, Music

Overview

A drug-fuelled road trip in the 60s

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

Ken Kesey

Self

Jerry Garcia

Jerry Garcia

Self (archive footage)

Neal Cassady

Neal Cassady

Self

Phil Lesh

Phil Lesh

Self (archive footage)

Bob Weir

Bob Weir

Self (archive footage)

Crew

Alison Ellwood

Alison Ellwood

Director

Alex Gibney

Alex Gibney

Writer

Alex Gibney

Alex Gibney

Director

Alison Ellwood

Alison Ellwood

Writer

Alex Gibney

Alex Gibney

Producer

Molly Thompson

Molly Thompson

Executive Producer

Will Clarke

Will Clarke

Producer

Alison Ellwood

Alison Ellwood

Editor

David Kahne

David Kahne

Original Music Composer

Alexandra Johnes

Alexandra Johnes

Producer

David Kowitz

David Kowitz

Executive Producer

David McKillop

David McKillop

Executive Producer

Robert Belau

Robert Belau

Executive Producer

Gareth Wiley

Gareth Wiley

Executive Producer