Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
2011, English. Directed by Alison Ellwood & Alex Gibney.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
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Cast & crew
- Alison EllwoodDirector
- Alex GibneyDirector
- Stanley TucciNarrator
- Ken KeseySelf
- Jerry GarciaSelf (archive footage)
- Neal CassadySelf
- Phil LeshSelf (archive footage)
- Bob WeirSelf (archive footage)
- Timothy LearySelf (archive footage)
- Larry McMurtrySelf (archive footage)
- Allen GinsbergSelf (archive footage)
- Jack KerouacSelf (archive footage)
- Ram DassSelf (archive footage)
Details
- Released
- 5 August 2011
- Country
- United States of America
- Written by
- Alex Gibney, Alison Ellwood
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What Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place is based on
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place is based on a true story.
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Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place is streaming on Dox and Magnolia Selects in India. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place?
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place (2011) was directed by Alison Ellwood and Alex Gibney and stars Stanley Tucci, Ken Kesey, Jerry Garcia.
What is Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place based on?
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place is based on a true story.