One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Name: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Released: 1975-11-19
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Danny DeVito, Brad Dourif

R
2h 14m
1975

93%

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A feisty misfit sent to a mental hospital inspires his fellow patients to assert themselves, much to the chagrin of the strong-willed head nurse, who turns out to be more dangerous than any of the inmates.Based on the novel by Ken Kesey and the play by Dale Wasserman.

Director:

Milos Forman

Producer:

Saul Zaentz, Michael Douglas

Writer:

Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman

Cast:

Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Danny DeVito, Brad Dourif, Will Sampson, Christopher Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Vincent Schiavelli

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

93%

Critics Consensus: Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher are worthy adversaries in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, with Miloš Forman's more grounded and morally ambiguous approach to Ken Kesey's surrealistic novel yielding a film of outsized power.

Reviews

Sunday Times (UK)

Dilys Powell

It is a political film... I mean political in the sense that it is about power, about ideological tyranny, and behind its façade are all the Solzhenitsyns who didn't get out.

Every vice and virtue is explored with humour and compassion in this masterly film. Altogether, an unforgettable experience.

Under the skillful direction of Milos Forman, and with Jack Nicholson in the "heroic" lead, "Cuckoo's Nest" attains its greatest power in the medium of film.

Kesey's story was hardly designed to be naturalistic, and Forman's streamlining isn't the way to make it work (there may not be any way). As it stands, Forman has merely reduced the story without successfully revising it.

It is Jack Nicholson, an actor continually producing profound and stunning performances, who fires a life in McMurphy different from, but not lesser than, Kesey's character. This is a milestone performance.

March 9, 2022

FULL REVIEW

Additional Info

Genre:Drama
Release Date:November 19, 1975
Languages:English
Captions:English
Audio Format:
5.1
Screen Pass Eligible:Yes

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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