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Feature film — 2011

Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place (2011)

6.81h 47mDocumentary — Music

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.

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A high-signal pick with 28 votes.

A&E IndieFilms / Phoenix Wiley Productions / Jigsaw Productions

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Director: Alison Ellwood

On screen

Cast & crew

Ken Kesey as Self

Ken Kesey

Self

Jerry Garcia as Self (archive footage)

Jerry Garcia

Self (archive footage)

Neal Cassady as Self

Neal Cassady

Self

Phil Lesh as Self (archive footage)

Phil Lesh

Self (archive footage)

Bob Weir as Self (archive footage)

Bob Weir

Self (archive footage)

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