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| Original Title |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| Director |
Milos Forman |
| Genre |
Drama, Comedy |
| Released |
1975-11-19 |
| MPAA Rating |
None |
| Rated |
8.7 |
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| McMurphy thinks he can get out of doing work while in prison by pretending to be mad. His plan backfires when he is sent to a mental asylum. He tries to liven the place up a bit by playing card games and basketball with his fellow inmates, but the head nurse is after him at every turn. |
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| Jack Nicholson as Randle Patrick McMurphy , Louise Fletcher as Nurse Mildred Ratched , William Redfield as Harding , Michael Berryman as Ellis, tall bald patient , Peter Brocco as Col. Matterson , Dean R. Brooks as Dr. John Spivey , Alonzo Brown as Miller , Scatman Crothers as Orderly Turkle , Mwako Cumbuka as Attendant Warren , Danny DeVito as Martini , William Duell as Jim Sefelt , Josip Elic as Bancini , Lan Fendors as Nurse Itsu , Nathan George as Attendant Washington , Ken Kenny as Beans Garfield |
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The second best movie of 1975
Cuckoo's Nest is a great film, there is no doubt about that. But
unfortunately this film swept everything that year at the Oscars and Jaws
was left out in the cold. Now Jaws is the film that I consider to be the
best film ever made and because of it I used to have a personal chip on my
shoulder about Cuckoo's Nest. I could never understand why a film like this
one was so much more heralded than Jaws. But now that I am little older I
can appreciate the fact that the Academy is really quite political and there
was no way that a 27 year old director was going to beat out Milos Forman
for best picture and best director. But that aside, I have to admit that
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST is one fantastic film. I just had to get
that out of the way first.
Jack gives, what I think, is his best performance ever in film. Here he a
driven, tenacious and determined man. I can only think of two other
characters in film that exhibit qualities like Randal McMurphy, and those
are Rambo and Indy. But seeing as McMurphy is more real and more
believable, that honour has to go to him. Cuckoo's Nest is an inspirational
film and if there is one line that will always be remembered in this film,
it is the line, " Well at least I tried, ***dammit!" That is the epitome of
what the film and the character are all about. Sure there is the underlying
theme of the common man against evil society but I like it better to think
of it just as a film about one mans struggle to rise to the occassion and
conquer some very stacked odds.
What is also great about the film is to see some actors early in their
career. Brad Dourif, Danny Devito and Christopher Lloyd all have roles in
the film and they have all gone on to have extensive careers in the Game.
There really isn't much more I can add to what Cuckoo's Nest is all about,
I'm sure you have seen and read it all before. All I can say is that is an
inspirational movie about not giving up and standing up for what you believe
is right. And it is done extremely well. It is not as good as Jaws (
nothing is ) but that is not a fault of it's own. Milos Forman is no Steven
Spielberg but that is another story and this film...... ah hell, why don't
we just leave it at that. It's a great film and Jack is at his best.
That's all you really need to know.
9 out of 10
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