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2011 Newport Beach Film Festival - Special Screening

posted 13 years ago by superb_haggis
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See "Magic Trip" at the 2011 Newport Beach Film Festival

In never-before-seen footage, this documentary follows Ken Kesey and his Merry Band of Pranksters as they make their LSD-fueled cross-country road trip from California to the 1964 New York World's Fair.

Sunday, May 1 at 8:00pm
Thursday, May 5 at 2:15pm

Ticket Info:
http://newportbeach.slated.com/2011/films/magictripkenkeseyssearchfora koolplace_newportbeach2011

Festival Info
newportbeachfilmfest.com

[–] 13 years ago

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[–] liutenantsalt 13 years ago

Yup. Apart from pseudointellectual campus revolutionaries, nobody's given a *beep* about Kesey or his Merry Band of Pissant Burnouts since 1969.

People who desperately need to glorify and fetishize the Hippie cults of the 60's will fawn over it, everyone else will ignore it completely.

[–] TheDewdAbides 13 years ago

They had a huge impact on modern culture and will forever be intertwined with this country's history. Whether you can comprehend or appreciate that fact doesn't change it.

Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback.

[–] SoundscapeMN 13 years ago

TheDewdAbides, agreed.

Interesting to notice that 1st reply is now deleted. Typical imdb boards bs.

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[–] faded2001 13 years ago

just because something happened in the past doeesnt make it meaningless...

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[–] captkirk_4 10 years ago

I enjoyed this movie as I knew little about these "Pranksters" other than the hippie wanna-bees I knew talked about them as if they were gods. I now know they were little more than bums, full grown adults who went around acting like children. This is why Mad Men has such a following, knowing that there was a whole other side to the 60s of adult people doing adult things. LSD is potentially very dangerous, and the flippant way they got knocked out of their heads with unknown dosages in a dangerous situation of being stranded in the Arizona desert is definitely NOT how anyone who chooses to use it should. Only weirdos are into this Nasty drug these days, it got some college dropout kid killed in my neighborhood when he wandered into someone else's apartment out of his mind on psychedelics.