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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
1975
In one of the most memorable indictments of mental institutions, and a subtle examination of male anger, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (based on the novel by Ken Kesey) presents a biting, and ultimately tragic, satire. R.P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson, in a role it would seem he was born to play), a misbehaving con who shirks .. Read more
| Starring | Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Brad Dourif |
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| Director | Milos Forman |
| Genres | Drama |
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
In one of the most memorable indictments of mental institutions, and a subtle examination of male anger, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (based on the novel by Ken Kesey) presents a biting, and ultimately tragic, satire. R.P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson, in a role it would seem he was born to play), a misbehaving con who shirks authority, finds himself in an asylum after faking insanity to get out of work detail in prison. Once in, the vivacious troublemaker finds out he's in a worse kind of prison--one presided over by the repressed, terrifyingly quiet Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher), whose taught set of rules and regulations are meant to suppress patients' psychotic outbursts, and their spirits. It's not long before McMurphy is reaching out to his new inmates, trying desperately to bring life to an otherwise dead atmosphere. He becomes the organizer of card games, tries to teach a huge Cree Indian, Chief Bromden (Will Sampson), to shoot baskets, and, when his efforts to allow the patients to see the World Series are thwarted, he mimics the game for his new friends. To Ratched, however, Nicholson's free spirit is as dangerous as a schizophrenic impulse.
A disturbing, witty, and electrifying drama, and directed by Milos Forman (AMADEUS, THE PEOPLE VS LARRY FLYNT), ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST is brilliantly acted by an ensemble that includes several future stars such as Christopher Lloyd and Danny DeVito. The film is also one of only three films�along with IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT and THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS�that won all five of the top Oscars; Best Actor (Nicholson), Best Actress (Fletcher), Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.
| Starring | Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Brad Dourif, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco, Scatman Crothers, William Duell, Sydney Lassick, Christopher Lloyd, Will Sampson, Vincent Schiavelli, Paul Lambert, Ted Markland, Scatman Crother |
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| Director | Milos Forman |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 8 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 8 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 must-see movies |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | Arabic, English |
| Released | DVD: 28 Sep 1998 Blu-ray: 16 Feb 2009 Production year: 1975 |
| Format | DVD |
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
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Adapted from Ken Kesey's novel, this film is one the classic movies of the seventies, thanks in no small measure to the talents of director Milos Forman, who propelled the comic antics to a horrifyingly poignant finale and resounding critical and commercial success; it became one of the few to be awarded all the major Oscars, winning for best picture, director, screenplay, actor (Jack Nicholson) and actress (Louise Fletcher). Nicholson's legendary performance as McMurphy, a free spirit at loose in a state mental home, is one of his greatest characterisations, as he stirs up rebellion against the oppressive regime of Fletcher's ward sister, in which drugs make patients' decisions. And among those patients are such then almost unknowns as Danny DeVito, Brad Dourif and Christopher Lloyd. The rights to the script had been bought by Michael Douglas — he was one of the film's producers years before for father Kirk, who'd played McMurphy on stage but was by this time too old for the part. This then became the great turn-down movie (with James Caan refusing McMurphy while Anne Bancroft, Angela Lansbury and Ellen Burstyn declined the nurse), but the awards proved just how wrong they were.
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Wildly and unexpectedly commercial film of a project which had lain dormant for fourteen years, this amusing and horrifying film conveniently sums up anti-government attitudes as well as make love not war and all that. It's certainly impossible to ignore.
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37 out of 38 people found this review helpful
Movie madness!
I have been meaning to watch this movie for some time now, mainly due to its reputation as being an all time classic.
After seeing the film, I now understand what the all the fuss is about...the entire movie, although fairly slow in pace will have you gripped from start to finish. The film pretty much resides in one location - the mental institute, and has little in the way of a plot, but there's not many movies that can keep a smile on your face for nearly 2 hours like this does.
It's the characters that compell you to watch this movie. Lead by Jack Nicholson and supported by a very young Danny Devito and a very bald Christopher Lloyd, the film explores the relationships between patients and asks the question 'How do you define madness?' -
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Stunning
This was the first time I had seen this I had always avoided it as I am a massive fan of the book, but this was superb and Jack was bang on the money. Great performance, great story great movie.
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Peers express grief over death of Heath Ledger
- 24 Jan 2008
A range of Hollywood stars have expressed their regret at the death of Brokeback Mountain actor Heath Ledger. Jack Nicholson, whose illustrious back catalogue of films includes One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining and A Few Good Men, also said that he had issued a warning to Ledger. Speaking to photographers, who had told him of the death, Nicholson said "that's awful…I warned him". However, in a strange twist of events, he said later that day he said that "he did... Read more
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