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.
"Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place" — movie produced in USA and released in 2011. It has a good rating on IMDb: 6.8 stars out of 10. It is a feature-length film with a runtime of 1h 47min. "Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place" is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime and for rent and to buy on Apple TV, Amazon Store and Fandango at Home. Click on a playlink to watch it now!
Lovingly pieced together (...) and fascinating — and as ramshackle as the ramblings of an acid freak.
...an intriguing window into a forgotten time, after beatniks yet before hippies: a rather innocent world, ...