Magic Trip

• 6.852 Documentary
• 2011-08-05
• 107 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Ken Kesey (Self) Jerry Garcia (Self (archive footage)) Neal Cassady (Self) Phil Lesh (Self (archive footage)) Bob Weir (Self (archive footage))

Director:

Alison Ellwood Alex Gibney

Writer:

Alex Gibney Alison Ellwood