Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
2011 · 107 MIN · IMDB 6.8 · 1,709 VOTES · DIR. Alex Gibney, Alison Ellwood
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...
00:06:11 PART OF OUR DAYTIME DIVERSION
00:10:14 SHE WAS PREGNANT, AND SHE WAS HUNGRY ALL THE TIME.
00:13:56 "FARTHER" IS A DISTANCE.
00:17:38 "THOSE BOOT THINGS -- YOU NEVER SAW A BOOT BEFORE
00:21:34 * THEY TWIST, AND I'LL TWIST *
00:26:05 TO GO TO THE STANFORD HOSPITAL
00:34:20 THAT YOU'D NEVER EVEN SEEN THE MOVIE.
00:38:13 WATERMELONS, WATERMELONS, WATERMELONS, WATERMELONS!
00:42:06 * WHALES WANT TO LOVE YOUR FACE *
00:46:13 STARTING THE BUS TRIP, I WAS KESEY'S LOVER
00:50:22 AS FAR AS HIS NEIGHBORS WERE CONCERNED.
00:55:05 AIR'S STILL THICK WITH DUST MOTES
00:59:28 WELL, THEY'RE NOT GONNA SOUND LIKE JOHN COLTRANE.
01:03:47 EXIT 9, EXIT 9.
01:08:04 AND TRY TO FIND GINSBERG AND KEROUAC.
01:11:47 * BETTER THINGS FOR BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY *
01:15:52 THEY DIDN'T WANT US TO GO UPSTAIRS.
01:20:21 COLORS VERY VIVID.
01:25:24 TRAVELING ACROSS THIS LAND
01:29:03 * MY HOLD ON REALITY'S STARTING TO SLIP *
01:32:49 IT'S A DRAG. I DON'T WANT TO EVER GO TO JAIL.
01:37:31 * FARE YOU WELL *
01:41:34 THAT GOES INTO RAISING A FAMILY
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,940
Dialogue density18.1 lines / min
First line00:00:28
Final line01:41:34
Production Record
DirectorAlex Gibney, Alison Ellwood
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes1,709