Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place

Name: Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
Director: Alex Gibney, Alison Ellwood
Released: 2011
Duration: 107 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Stanley Tucci, Ken Kesey, Jim Meskimen, Veronica Taylor, Allen Ginsberg

2011 · 107 MIN · IMDB 6.8 · 1,709 VOTES · DIR. Alex Gibney, Alison Ellwood

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Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,940 lines

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00:00:28 AND THERE WAS JUST...

00:06:17 WHERE THE CONSTRUCTION WAS GOING ON FOR THE WORLD'S FAIR.

00:10:30 TRYING TO GET TO THE EAST COAST SOMEHOW.

00:14:19 AND WE DECIDED WE WANTED A TURRET ON THE TOP.

00:18:16 WELL, THE MOMENT OF DEPARTURE WAS BEAUTIFUL.

00:22:19 I REMEMBER WHEN WE FIRST HEADED OUT OF LA

00:27:18 IN THE TREATMENT OF MIGRAINE HEADACHES.

00:35:17 MEDICATION TIME.

00:39:27 SO I'M GOING TO TAKE SOME LSD.

00:43:47 "WORRY ABOUT WHAT? THAT'S ONE OF MY CLEAN T-SHIRTS."

00:47:42 * OH YEAH *

00:52:13 AND IT ALSO MADE ME NERVOUS, THINKING

00:57:06 I REMEMBER LOOKING AROUND THE SWIMMING HOLE

01:01:26 * YEAH, YEAH *

01:06:23 SOME TWO WEEKS LATER, THE BUS HAS SOMEHOW MANAGED

01:10:18 AND IT WAS LIKE THE HOTTEST 29th OF JUNE THAT EVER HAD BEEN.

01:14:26 MEETING THE EAST COAST ACIDHEADS

01:18:28 I WAS SO HAPPY TO BE OFF OF IT.

01:23:43 NOW IT MEANS BE SCARED OF HIM."

01:28:14 TO GO AND CHECK OUT.

01:32:01 THEN YOU'RE BLOWING YOUR TICKET.

01:36:55 I SAID, "OH NO, ALLEN, YOU'RE JUST PARANOID."

01:41:12 AND I THOUGHT, "THERE'S CERTAIN THINGS

04:00:00 FARM OUTSIDE OF POUGHKEEPSIE

Cast & Characters

Stanley Tucci Narrator Ken Kesey Self Jim Meskimen Zonker Veronica Taylor Jane Burton Allen Ginsberg Self

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,940

Dialogue density18.1 lines / min

First line00:00:28

Final line04:00:00

Production Record

DirectorAlex Gibney, Alison Ellwood

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes1,709