Magic Trip 12 years old

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.

Credits

Magic Trip Cast

Name Character
Jerry Garcia He was 69, 53 years old when he died as Himself
Ken Kesey He was 75, 66 years old when he died as words and recordings
Neal Cassady He was 85, 41 years old when he died as Himself
Phil Lesh He was 71, now 84 years old as Himself
Grateful Dead was 46, now 59 years old

Magic Trip Crew

Name Department
Alex Gibney as Director. He was 57 (now 70) years old Directing
Alex Gibney as Writer. He was 57 (now 70) years old Writing
Alison Ellwood as Director. She was 50 (now 62) years old Directing
Magic Trip poster
Magic Trip (12 years)

A drug-fuelled road trip in the 60s

  • Release day: Friday, August 05, 2011
  • Runtime: 107 minutes