Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place (2011)
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.
Directors: Alison Ellwood, Alex Gibney.
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Ken Kesey as Self |
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Jerry Garcia as Self (archive footage) |
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Neal Cassady as Self |
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Phil Lesh as Self (archive footage) |
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Bob Weir as Self (archive footage) |
| Directing | Alison Ellwood | Director |
| Directing | Alex Gibney | Director |
| Writing | Alex Gibney | Writer |
| Writing | Alison Ellwood | Writer |
| Production | Robert Belau | Executive Producer |
| Production | Will Clarke | Producer |
| Production | Alex Gibney | Producer |
| Production | Alexandra Johnes | Producer |
| Production | David Kowitz | Executive Producer |
| Production | David McKillop | Executive Producer |
| Production | Molly Thompson | Executive Producer |
| Production | Gareth Wiley | Executive Producer |
| Sound | David Kahne | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Alison Ellwood | Editor |
