Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics (2020) on Netflix

TV-MA20201h 25mComedy Documentary

Celebrities describe their psychedelic trips on camera, and animation and reenactments act out the stories. The documentary also covers the science and history of hallucinogens.

Netflix3.2/5
IMDb6.8/109,051 votes
Rotten Tomatoes58%

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Plot summary

A comedic documentary in which comedians, musicians and actors recount their own experiences with hallucinogens. Their anecdotes are acted out in animation and reenactments, and the documentary sets those stories alongside the science, history, cultural impact and possible future uses of psychedelics. A conversation at the Nantucket Film Festival in 2009, where people told stories about the different effects hallucinogens produce, gave rise to the plan for a film that would gather them. More than a hundred interviews were recorded over about eleven years, mostly at the interviewees' own homes and apartments, and one took place in a Beverly Hills house its owner called the acid house.

Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics (2020)

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Carrie Fisher's Beverly Hills home, which she nicknamed the "acid house", was one of the film's locations; most interviews were shot at the subjects' own homes and apartments, while Sarah Silverman's was filmed in a park.
Donick Cary asked everyone he knew to appear in the documentary and roughly 1 in 10 said yes; he conducted over a hundred interviews, enough footage that they could be broken down into a series or multiple films.
Have a Good Trip took 11 years to make, partly because the filmmakers had to work around celebrities' schedules, with the scheduling handled through an agency called Central Talent Booking.
Director Donick Cary got the idea for the documentary in 2009 at the Nantucket Film Festival, where he, Ben Stiller and Fisher Stevens ate together in a lounge and swapped stories about hallucinogens and their different effects.