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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," 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. Kesey and the Pranksters intended to make a documentary about their trip, shooting footage on 16MM, but the film was never finished and the footage has remained virtually unseen. With MAGIC TRIP, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) and co-director Alison Ellwood were given unprecedented access to this raw footage by the Kesey family. They worked with the Film Foundation, HISTORY and the UCLA Film Archives to restore over 100 hours of film and audiotape, and have shaped an invaluable document of this extraordinary piece of American history.
Original Release
08/05/2011
US Release
08/05/2011
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Stanley Tucci | Narrator |
Jim Meskimen | Zonker |
Veronica Taylor | Jane Burton |
Larry McMurtry | Self |
Timothy Leary | Self |
Jerry Garcia | Self / Self (archive footage) |
Ken Kesey | Self |
Allen Ginsberg | Self |
Jack Kerouac | Self |
Andrea Cirie | Gretchen Fetchen |
Directors
Writers
Ken Kesey, Alex Gibney, Alison Ellwood
Cast
Name | Character |
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Stanley Tucci | Narrator |
Jim Meskimen | Zonker |
Veronica Taylor | Jane Burton |
Larry McMurtry | Self |
Timothy Leary | Self |
Jerry Garcia | Self / Self (archive footage) |
Ken Kesey | Self |
Allen Ginsberg | Self |
Jack Kerouac | Self |
Andrea Cirie | Gretchen Fetchen |
Neal Cassady | Self |
Bob Weir | Self / Self (archive footage) |
Ram Dass | Self |
Grateful Dead | Themselves |
Terry Gross | Self - Interviewer |
Bill Kreutzmann | Self |
Karen Gilliam | Stark Naked |
Ken Babbs | Self |
Phil Lesh | Self / Self (archive footage) |
Kathy Casamo | Self |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Robert Belau | Executive Producer |
David Kowitz | Executive Producer |
David McKillop | Executive Producer |
Molly Thompson | Executive Producer |
Gareth Wiley | Executive Producer |
Alex Gibney | Producer |
Sam Black | Producer |
Will Clarke | Producer |
Jannat Gargi | Producer |
Alexandra Johnes | Producer |
Susan Johnson | Producer |
Zane Kesey | Producer |