Product Details

• Actors: Ken Babbs, O.B. Babbs, Neal Cassady, Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey
• Directors: O.B. Babbs
• Format: Black & White, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Winstar
• VHS Release Date: September 18, 1997
• Run Time: 56 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1572521104
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #360,023 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From the Actor

o Film features soundtrack including previously unreleased Grateful Dead tracks o Original footage of Leary, The Merry Pranksters and the Grateful Dead o Includes narration by author Ken Kesey o Exclusive footage of Leary’s final "Cyber Chat" with Ken Kesey on the internet o Original Film Trailer

About the Actor

Dr. Timothy Leary was one of the most recognizable and influential icons of the turbulent 60’s and the counter-culture proponent once called "The most dangerous man in America" by President Nixon. A Harvard professor who pioneered psychology and consciousness raising and a self-proclaimed LSD guru, he led a controversial 30-year struggle, encouraging the nation to "Tune in, turn on and drop out."

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35 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Very very bad and cheasy..!!!!, March 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Timothy Leary's Last Trip [VHS] (VHS Tape)

As this story starts out, you get the excited feeling that you are about to witness an in-depth and expansive insight into Timothy Leary... suddenly a tall lanky kid (the son of an unknown Merry Prankster) leads you on a goofball idiotic history of the Merry Prankster 60's.. He talks to you like you are 7 years old and continually tries to sensationalize word, "LSD", like it is a mind shattering word that will just blow you over with the way he says it. His sensationalist attempt fails and just makes him look really naive and stupid.. You tire of the performance 5 minutes into the show. It seems obvious that the age group this is intended for must be the teeny bopper group. Timothy Leary is hardly in this movie, except for a few occasional places, it's instead devoted to Ken Kessey and his merry pranksters and everything they did in the 60's. They eventually meet up together near the end of Learys life and Kessey exploits the situtaion to steal the show with his "warrior philosophy" in which leary describes later as "I just played along" You get the feeling that most everyone who attended didnt really know who leary was, except that he was connected with l.s.d. in some way. Most had never read any of his work.. He must have secretly been very lonley towards the end.

Timothy Leary was a big brain, no doubt, just explore Exo-Psychology (a work that modern day psychology has never really been able to decrypt) He made some genuine and important contributions to psychology, he was a real pioneer and a Galileo of his time.. it's sad that he should be used in such a lame and cheap attempt to make some bucks or to fulfill the ego's of the those that missed the 60's and want to take advantage of a spotlight shining on a greater person.

26 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars TIMOTHY LEARY EXPLOITED!!!!!!, August 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Timothy Leary's Last Trip (DVD)

BEWARE! This video isn't really about Tim at all. It is more about the Merry Pranksters than anything else. I thought I would find a good documentary about one of the most brilliant men of the century, the man who wrote Exo-Psychology, the man who served prison time with a smile on his face. This film merely exploits Tim's memory.

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars a real bummer, March 10, 2005

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This review is from: Timothy Leary's Last Trip (DVD)

Unfortunalty, this film has very little to do with Tim Leary's life, work or death. In fact, it is more of a bad documentary that tries to glorify the Merry Pranksters. The film was made by OB Babbs whose real interest is exploiting Leary's fame to make a few bucks and talking about his parents (he goes on and on about growing up with the Merry Pranksters and yet seems to understand them poorly). If you are interested in a childish view of the Merry Pranksters, buy this film, if you are actually interested in Timothy Leary, whatever you do, DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS!

To conclude, it is just a documentary (that barely deserves the title) compossed of footage of the M.P. lumped together in a manner that suggests that Babbs edited it himself and spend about 10$ in the process. The information in the film about Leary was less than what could be found in an encyclopedia.