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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a bruising film -- boisterous, unflinching, sometimes ugly. Yet it is tempered with a quiet humanity, a genuine regard for people and their impossible predicaments.

Nicholson does a lot of things very well, and has much charm, but he just isn't elemental enough. As for Louise Fletcher, the Mattie of "Thieves Like Us," she is a fine, expressive actress, but wrong for Big Nurse.

It is a finely made film, perhaps the most honest to date to deal with the inmates of a mental hospital... And it may well be the vehicle to win Jack Nicholson his long-deserved Oscar. But its subsurface rewards are minimal.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest can be compared to All the President's Men or the conspiracy film Capricorn One in how it challenges the system. Low-key and understated, this film is powerful in ways that cut to the core of the human condition.

A rare screen adaptation of a beloved novel that maintains the emotional and dramatic power of the original while establishing its own distinctive approach to the story...