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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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STORY In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” set off on a legendary cross-country road trip to the New York World’s Fair. He was joined by “The Merry Band of Pranksters,” including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac’s “On the Road.” Kesey and the Pranksters intended to make a documentary about their trip, but the film was never finished and the footage has remained virtually unseen. With MAGIC TRIP, Oscar®-winning director Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood were given unprecedented access to this raw footage to create a documentary of this extraordinary piece of American history.

STARRING Ken Kesey Neal Cassady The Merry Band of Pranksters The Grateful Dead

DIRECTED BY Alison Ellwood Alex Gibney

PRODUCED BY Will Clarke Alex Gibney Alexandra Johnes

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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," including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac's "On the Road." Kesey and the Pranksters intended to make a documentary about their trip, but the film was never finished and the footage has remained virtually unseen. With Magic Trip, Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood were given unprecedented access to this raw footage to create a documentary of this extraordinary piece of American history.

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• MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces
• Item model number ‏ : ‎ 22853942
• Director ‏ : ‎ Alison Ellwood, Alex Gibney
• Media Format ‏ : ‎ Dolby, Closed-captioned, Multiple Formats, Color, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 47 minutes
• Release date ‏ : ‎ November 1, 2011
• Actors ‏ : ‎ Ken Kesey, Ken Babbs, Timothy Leary, The Grateful Dead, Neal Cassady
• Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ Spanish
• Producers ‏ : ‎ Will Clarke, Alexandra Johnes, Alex Gibney
• Studio ‏ : ‎ Magnolia Home Ent
• ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005HI4LLO
• Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
• Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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Directed by Alex Gibney , Alison Ellwood

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.

Ken Kesey Jerry Garcia Neal Cassady Phil Lesh Bob Weir

Directors Directors

Alex Gibney Alison Ellwood

Producers Producers

Will Clarke Alex Gibney Alexandra Johnes

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Executive Producers Exec. Producers

Gareth Wiley David McKillop Molly Thompson Robert Belau David Kowitz

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Review by Mos Co ★½

I fell asleep watching this last night and just finished it off tonight. Its so much more interesting reading about these dudes rather than watching them.

Review by ghostdinosaur ★★★½ 2

i love lsd and so i love this movie

Review by Allison M. 🌱 ★★★½

“Those first few pages of Cuckoo's Nest were written on peyote.”

I feel that while there wasn't a whole lot of new information about Ken Kesey, it was an interesting story, told through beautiful visuals. The music elevated the documentary to a whole new level. It was basically fun and historical. It's always safe to check out anything by director Alex Gibney. The film is also co-directed by Alison Ellwood.

“...There was more than we had been led to believe.”

Vegan alert: -Testing on cats: cats were afraid of mice if they had LSD

Vegan points: -Positive song about whales

Review by kayla ★★★★

I wanna do something like this

Review by kmeaston ★★½

I appreciate the abundance of rare and unseen footage, but watching this is like being the only sober person at the party.

Review by wellwellwell ★★★ 1

Probably interesting only if you've read Woolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Trip. I have, and it was pretty amazing to see Kesey and his merry pranksters as they really were.

Review by Evgeny Smirnov ★★★

Hopefully one day a genius editor will make a new psychedelic "Diaries, Notes, and Sketches" out of Pranksters' 40+ hours of footage: raw parts of their movie that made it to Magic Trip look very promising. The current creative team, however, decided to patch it all together with a bunch of outisde narrative elements that rarely work and sometimes annoy much more than they should. Some of the psychedelic animations are nice, but most of the present day interviews and added documentary narratives fail to do justice to the trip: they are sometimes vulgar, sometimes boring and only rarely insightful, Jane Burton gets a ton of time for some reason, even though it's obvious that she is bitter about the…

Review by BT369 ½

Best part was when the hippies finally arrive in new york and invite Jack Kerouac, their idol, to a party and they try really hard to impress him but he just sits there quietly sipping his beer visibly cringing at their antics

Review by Iris

That bus must smell crazy

Review by sethbgvt ★★★

If you want a visual sense of what it was like to be involved with Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters as they went across country in the Furthur bus in 1964, this documentary has it. A lot of it. 

I confess I’m of that boomer generation and was excited to see this newly reconstructed footage that had been put away. I’m also a big big Dead fan. Saw them twice when Jerry was still alive and four times post Jerry. And at first, I felt happy and almost high,  reliving the “good” times. But as the trip and film wore on, the nostalgia wore off and I got bored almost. Don’t get me wrong. If you are just getting your feet…

Review by TaylorCohan

even with help from the cia, this propaganda film can't make ken keesey not seem like a sex pervert

Review by MoviePhreak ★★★

This is the film version of Tom Wolfe’s masterful and freewheeling book, “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” - a documentary using mostly original film footage that Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters captured on their journey from Oregon to the New York World’s Fair of 1964, and then back again. It’s a chronicle of a different time, in a different America. It all feels rather quaint and juvenile, actually, and not exactly a grand experiment in consciousness expansion and an existence fueled on good drugs and the music of the Dead.

Biggest takeway: Neal Cassady was a seriously freaky dude. What did Kerouac and Ginsberg ever see in him?

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