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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, Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney and 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.
 
Directed by
ALEX GIBNEY
ALISON ELLWOOD
Screenplay by
ALEX GIBNEY
&
ALISON ELLWOOD
Based On the Words and Recordings of
KEN KESEY
Produced by
WILL CLARKE
ALEX GIBNEY
ALEXANDRA JOHNES
Executive Producers
DAVID MCKILLOP
MOLLY THOMPSON
Executive Producers
ROBERT BELAU
DAVID KOWITZ
GARETH WILEY
AN ALEX GIBNEY PRODUCTION
IN ASSOCIATION WITH PHOENIX WILEY LTD
Edited by
ALISON ELLWOOD
Co-Producer
ZANE KESEY
Associate Producers
SAM BLACK
SUSAN JOHNSON
Original Music by
DAVID KAHNE
Music Supervisor
JOHN MCCULLOUGH
Featuring
STANLEY TUCCI as the Interviewer
Co-Editor
LINDY JANKURA
Audio Restoration
DON FLEMING
Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady and The Merry Band of Pranksters |
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“Like a hipster’s King Tut’s tomb. Fans will find this reconstruction indispensable.” – John Anderson, Variety
“A VIBRANT TIME-CAPSULE… A TREASURE TROVE” – Craig Detweiler, Paste Magazine
“A trip well worth going on.” – Benji Carver, Film School Rejects
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