Magic Trip
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  • Summary: 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 assady, 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. (Magnolia Pictures)… Expand

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  1. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Shawn Levy
    Aug 11, 2011
    83
    The film is a lively and absorbing document, filled with jaw-dropping materials, such as an actual audio recording of Kesey's first LSD trip in a Stanford University lab.
  2. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Mark Feeney
    Sep 1, 2011
    75
    It's the movie "Yellow Submarine'' should have been but didn't know how to be.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    Aug 5, 2011
    60
    The title's accurate; there are lots of minor but magical moments, like witnessing the accidental invention of tie-dye.
  4. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    Aug 5, 2011
    60
    The filmmakers' fidelity to their source material is admirable, but more historical context could have made this Trip as illuminating as it is magical.

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