Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place (2011): Besetzung, Handlung & Streaming

Released in 2011, Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place is a musik and dokumentarfilm film directed by Alex Gibney, running about 107 minutes. “A drug-fuelled road trip in the 60s” — that tagline sets the tone.

What it’s about. 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.

Who’s in it. Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place stars Ken Kesey as Self, Jerry Garcia as Himself, Neal Cassady as Self and Phil Lesh as Himself, among others.

How it landed. With an audience score of 6.8/10, Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place has drawn a solid, mixed-to-positive response.

Where to watch. In USA you can stream it on YouTube TV, Dox Amazon Channel and Magnolia Selects Amazon Channel and rent or buy it from Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies and YouTube. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place page.

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