Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790732183
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 0790732181
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 1997-12-17
Running Time: 134
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1975

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Summary: Blatant realism! One of the all-time greats!
Comment: This movie probably wouldn't go over as big today as it did in the '70s, because the "art immitates life" stark realism of this flick has become outdated. But this truly is one of the cinema greats that deserved all the Oscars that it won in '75. This movie put Jack Nicholson on the map with his first Oscar for best actor, for his portrayal of the ne'er-do-well infidel Randall P. McMurphy who gets sent to a nut house from the state work farm. He teaches the people in the mental hospital how to play Black Jack, how to stand up for themselves, and immediately buts heads with the infamous villain of the story, Nurse Ratchett, played by Louise Fletcher in her Oscar winning performance. Even though he tries to remain cool and aloof, McMurphy starts to bond with his fellow crazies, even the tall (deaf and dumb?) Indian called Chief. McMurphy finds his own ways to help the other patients in ways that almost drive the staff into the nut house...and when he crosses the line with Nurse Ratchett, the disturbing consequences can be fatal to someone! A deeply moving, stirring and sometimes disturbing story, this is one of the greatest movies in a raw and real portrayal of human struggle...serious, with an occasional dose of humor. This is a stark and dark, but excellent movie, that also introduced audiences to actors like Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd and Scatman Crothers. A great movie that I highly recommend, although the pictures it paints of humanity are not always pleasant.

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Summary: Darn that nurse!
Comment: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is edgy, surprisely comical, and heartbreaking in parts. Jack Nicholson won his first Oscar for this movie, this is his best role to date. Nicholson brings depth and vulgarity to his role, he knows how to balance between with ease and talent. Louise Fletcher plays Nurse Ratchett, I'll just say she is not a sweetheart, she plays a character that most people won't like but she's fabulous in this drama. I highly recommend watching this beloved classic, enjoy!

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Summary: Painfully real
Comment: I love the lunacy of this movie. It reminds me a lot of me. Unfortunately, it also shows me the twisted and upsetting side of life that I have encountered all-to-often in my 38 years. Still, I highly recommend this picture to those few realists out there.

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Summary: Totally engrossing - personal favorite
Comment: Jack is flatout great in this one. Can't think of any reason why this one shouldn't be labeled on of the best movies of the 70s. Louise Fletcher is incredibly good as well. Gotta see it.

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Summary: AWESOME! ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
Comment: THIS IS AN AWESOME MOVIE! I GO ABSOLUTELY "CUCKOO" FOR "ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST"!!! I RECOMMEND THIS FILM ALONG WITH THE BOOK! THIS FILM HAS SOME HUMOR AND SOME SERIOUSNESS!!

IF YOU LOVE JACK NICHOLSON, YOU WILL LOVE THIS MOVIE! THIS IS A DEFINITE ***** MOVIE AND WORTH ALL OSCARS. I TIP MY TOP HAT FOR JACK NICHOLSON, CHRISTOPHER LLOYD, DANNY DEVITO AND MANY OTHER ACTORS IN THIS FILM! JACK IS A CONVINCING CRAZY MCMURPHY!!!

IF YOU BUY THE FILM, YOU MUST ALSO BUY THE BOOK TO GO ALONG WITH IT!! BUY THEM BOTH TODAY--I AM SURE YOU WILL ABSOLUTELY LOVE THEM!

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Editorial Reviews:

One of the key movies of the 1970s, when exciting, groundbreaking, personal films were still being made in Hollywood, Milos Forman's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest emphasized the humanistic story at the heart of Ken Kesey's more hallucinogenic novel. Jack Nicholson was born to play the part of Randle Patrick McMurphy, the rebellious inmate of a psychiatric hospital who fights back against the authorities' cold attitudes of institutional superiority, as personified by Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher). It's the classic antiestablishment tale of one man asserting his individuality in the face of a repressive, conformist system--and it works on every level. Forman populates his film with memorably eccentric faces, and gets such freshly detailed and spontaneous work from his ensemble that the picture sometimes feels like a documentary. Unlike a lot of films pitched at the "youth culture" of the 1970s, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest really hasn't dated a bit, because the qualities of human nature that Forman captures--playfulness, courage, inspiration, pride, stubbornness--are universal and timeless. The film swept the Academy Awards for 1976, winning in all the major categories (picture, director, actor, actress, screenplay) for the first time since Frank Capra's It Happened One Night in 1931. --Jim Emerson