The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (2012)
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (2012)

Genre
Adventure, Comedy
Release Date
TBA 2012
Studio
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Genre
Adventure, Comedy
Release Date
TBA 2012
MPAA Rating
-
Duration
-
Production Budget
-
Studio
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Official Site
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Director
Gus Van Sant
Producer
Richard N. Gladstein
Screenwriter
Gustin Nash

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.