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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/


One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Producer: Saul Zaentz, Michael Douglas

Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Will Sampson, Brad Dourif, Sydney Lassick, Christopher Lloyd, Danny DeVito, Delos V Smith Jr, Marya Small, Louisa Moritz, Dean R Brooks, Scatman Crothers

Rated R

2 hrs 16 mins

Dramas

On DVD 09-24-2002



SYNOPSIS


Milos Foreman's ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, based on the novel by Ken Kesey and the play by Dale Wasserman, presents a biting and ultimately tragic satire about mental institutions and the human spirit. A disturbing, witty, and electrifying drama, the film won the 1975 Academy Award for Best Picture. R.P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), a misbehaved con who shirks authority, finds himself in an asylum after faking insanity to get out of work detail in prison. The vivacious troublemaker soon finds himself in a worse kind of prison--one presided over by the repressed, terrifyingly quiet Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher), whose 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. To Ratched, however, Nicholson's free spirit is as dangerous as a schizophrenic impulse. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST is brilliantly acted by an ensemble that includes Brad Dourif, Christopher Lloyd, Vincent Schiavelli, and Danny DeVito.



REVIEW


Is there such a thing as too crazy? One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest examines life inside a mental institution where the definition has many shades of meaning.

Jack Nicholson stars as Randle Patrick McMurphy, a convict who’s shipped to an asylum because of his violent tendencies; however, he seems as sane as any person on the street. When he mixes with the inmates of his ward, some voluntary, others involuntary, we learn what it’s truly like to be sane.

Corralling the mentally disturbed is the head nurse Mildred Ratched. She is a strict disciplinarian and refuses to tolerate flagrant disregard of the rules. Although she does only what she believe is best for the inmates, she viciously defends her practices. Matter of fact, a reasonable person could see her concern for the patients and her ability to steer them towards sanity. However, her stubbornness when it comes to the contradictory McMurphy, bring out the worst in her and her temperament could easily be characterized as evil.

Nicholson does some of his best work here. When acting normally, you might not even suspect it is he under that black knit cap. However, his trademark glares and off-the-wall behavior have a place in McMurphy’s contrary mentality. One might believe he is crazy when viewing his antics from outside but when you look at how he interacts with the other “prisoners”, he sees people who have been unfairly castigated into this institution supposedly trying to make them normal again yet denying them every semblance of normality that they deserve.










Codec: Xvid
Size: 1.07GB
Runtime: 02:13:55
Resolution: 544x384 (1.42:1)
Bitrate: 1013 kb/s
FPS: 23.976
Qf: 0.202 bits/pixel
Audio: English. No sub.
128 kb/s (64/ch, stereo) CBR

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