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

2011
1h 47m
Documentary
Music

Status

Released

Release

2011

Runtime

1h 47m

Where to Watch

Available options inUS

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Streaming

2
Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Prime Video with Ads

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6
Amazon Video
Apple TV Store
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YouTube
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6
Amazon Video
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4
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Storyline

"A drug-fuelled road trip in the 60s"

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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Details

Status
Released
Runtime
1h 47m
Aug 5, 2011
Languages
English
Director
Alison Ellwood
Alison Ellwood
Alex Gibney
Alex Gibney
Production
A&E IndieFilms
A&E IndieFilms
Phoenix Wiley Productions
Phoenix Wiley Productions
Jigsaw Productions
Jigsaw Productions
Production Countries
United States of America
Official Website

Top Cast

5 Cast Members

Ken Kesey

Ken Kesey

Self

Jerry Garcia

Jerry Garcia

Self (archive footage)

Neal Cassady

Neal Cassady

Self

Phil Lesh

Phil Lesh

Self (archive footage)

Bob Weir

Bob Weir

Self (archive footage)

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