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

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.

6.9

107 min

Cast

Ken Kesey

as Self

Jerry Garcia

as Self (archive footage)

Neal Cassady

as Self

Phil Lesh

as Self (archive footage)

Bob Weir

as Self (archive footage)

Director

Alison Ellwood

Alex Gibney