Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
A drug-fuelled road trip in the 60s
2011 | 107m | English
Popularity: 0.3 (history)
| Director: | Alison Ellwood, Alex Gibney |
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| Writer: | Alison Ellwood, Alex Gibney |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Aug 05, 2011 |
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| Director: | Alison Ellwood, Alex Gibney |
| Writer: | Alison Ellwood, Alex Gibney |
| Genres: | Documentary, Music |
| Keywords | biography, road trip, based on true story, woman director |
| Production Companies | Jigsaw Productions, A&E IndieFilms, Phoenix Wiley Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 31, 2026 Entered: Apr 26, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Ken Kesey | Self |
| Jerry Garcia | Self (archive footage) |
| Neal Cassady | Self |
| Phil Lesh | Self (archive footage) |
| Bob Weir | Self (archive footage) |
| Name | Job |
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| Alison Ellwood | Director, Writer, Editor |
| Alex Gibney | Director, Writer |
| David Kahne | Original Music Composer |
| Name | Title |
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| Robert Belau | Executive Producer |
| Will Clarke | Producer |
| David Kowitz | Executive Producer |
| David McKillop | Executive Producer |
| Alex Gibney | Producer |
| Alexandra Johnes | Producer |
| Molly Thompson | Executive Producer |
| Gareth Wiley | Executive Producer |
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