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%

age 16+

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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:

Writer:

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: The onscreen battle between Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher serves as a personal microcosm of the culture wars of the 1970s -- and testament to the director's vision that the film retains its power more than three decades later.

Reviews

Times (UK)

David Robinson

Forman has lost nothing of his skills since the Fireman's Ball, his last film in Czechoslovakia, a...

...a rigged narrative which feeds an instinct both for clear-eyed anarchy and for gross sentimenta...

What Forman achieves with most consistent success in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest... are the gr...

January 27, 2020

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Los Angeles Free Press

Jacoba Atlas

The supporting players, working as a repertory group, are so perfectly cast and so perfectly attun...

February 4, 2020

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El Pais (Spain)

Jesús Fernández Santos

It could be said that the film is Jack Nicholson, with his incredible range from humor to drama, f...

July 18, 2019

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Common Sense Media

age 16+

Common Sense Says

Classic and brilliant, but violence makes it teens only.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this adult drama laced with humor deals with life-and-death issues and is set in a hospital psychiatric ward. Intense situations alternate with comic moments, and underlying all are the weighty topics of tyranny, sacrifice, and the fragility of the human mind. There are scenes of sustained cruelty, forcible restraint of mental patients, fighting, and two deaths (including a suicide). Language is strong throughout: "f--k," "s--t," "a--hole," "jerk off," and a multitude of other expressions, including slurs such as "queer," "dumb Indian" and more. Characters smoke constantly, drink, and get drunk in one out-of-control party sequence.