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.
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Cast
- Stanley Tucci — Narrator
- Ken Kesey — Self
- Jerry Garcia — Self (archive footage)
- Neal Cassady — Self
- Phil Lesh — Self (archive footage)
- Bob Weir — Self (archive footage)
- Timothy Leary — Self (archive footage)
- Larry McMurtry — Self (archive footage)
- Allen Ginsberg — Self (archive footage)
- Jack Kerouac — Self (archive footage)
- Ram Dass — Self (archive footage)
Where to watch Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
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