Name: Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Released: TBA 2012

Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The (2012)

Genre

Adventure, Comedy

Release Date

TBA 2012

Studio

Fox Searchlight Pictures

Information

Genre

Adventure, Comedy

Release Date

TBA 2012

MPAA Rating

Duration

Production Budget

Studio

Fox Searchlight Pictures

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Cast and Crew

Director

Gus Van Sant

Producer

Richard N. Gladstein

Screenwriter

Gustin Nash

Synopsis

Based on Tom Wolfe's hallucinogenic novel, "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," the story of a cross-country road trip that "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" author Ken Kesey orchestrated with a group called the Merry Pranksters. Driving in a psychedelically painted bus from California to visit the World's Fair in New York in 1964, Kesey and his band used the trip as a way to turn on those they met to the mind-expanding wonders of LSD.

Kesey ingested the drug while he wrote "Cuckoo's Nest," crediting the hallucinogen for many of the ideas in the book.

The film will focus on Kesey and include events that occurred after the road trip.