BigList
Login / Sign up
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place (2011)

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

Music Documentary

A drug-fuelled road trip in the 60s

Release Date: 2011, August 5
Directors: Alex Gibney, Alison Ellwood
Countries: United States of America
Production: A&E IndieFilms, Phoenix Wiley Productions, Jigsaw Productions
Cast: Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady

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.

Keywords:

biography based on true story woman director road trip