Magic Trip

Magic Trip

2011 · 107 min · EN · R · 6.8 (24 votes)
Dir. Alison Ellwood, Alex Gibney · Starring Ken Kesey, Jerry Garcia, Neal Cassady, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir · Music David Kahne

A drug-fuelled road trip in the 60s

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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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A kaleidoscopic journey into the heart of the 60s counterculture. It feels like a wild, uninhibited road trip fueled by LSD and a quest for truth, capturing a moment of pure, unadulterated freedom and chaotic exploration.

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