Magic Trip

Magic Trip

107 mins | Documentary, Music | Aug. 5, 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.

Magic Trip

107 mins | Documentary, Music | Aug. 5, 2011

Magic Trip
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.
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers A&E IndieFilms, Phoenix Wiley
Original title Magic Trip
Directors Alison Ellwood, Alex Gibney
Writers Alison Ellwood, Alex Gibney

Cast

Ken Kesey

as words and recordings

Jerry Garcia

as Himself

Neal Cassady

as Himself

Phil Lesh

as Himself