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

Documentary | Music

6.9

Release Date

August 5, 2011

Duration

107 min

Status

Released

Language

en

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.

Casts

Ken Kesey

Self

Ken Kesey

Jerry Garcia

Self (archive footage)

Jerry Garcia

Neal Cassady

Self

Neal Cassady

Phil Lesh

Self (archive footage)

Phil Lesh

Bob Weir

Self (archive footage)

Bob Weir

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