MAGIC TRIP: KEN KESEY'S SEARCH FOR A KOOL PLACE (2011)

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Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
A drug-fuelled road trip in the 60s
Documentary, Music
August 5, 2011
English
1h 47m
United States
A&E IndieFilms
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 & Characters
Ken Kesey
Self
Jerry Garcia
Self (archive footage)
Neal Cassady
Self
Phil Lesh
Self (archive footage)
Bob Weir
Self (archive footage)
Crew
Alison Ellwood
Director
Alex Gibney
Director
Alex Gibney
Writer
Alison Ellwood
Writer
David Kahne
Original Music Composer
Alex Gibney
Producer
Will Clarke
Producer
Alexandra Johnes
Producer
Molly Thompson
Executive Producer
David Kowitz
Executive Producer
David McKillop
Executive Producer
Robert Belau
Executive Producer
Gareth Wiley
Executive Producer