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Magic Trip


Now On Demand and Available on DVD November 1st

     

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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.

PRODUCTION TEAM

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

CAST

Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady and The Merry Band of Pranksters

 

“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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Date for DVD release subject to change.