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One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Though failing to save the patients from the cruelty of Nurse Ratchet, McMurphy's message to live free or die is ultimately not lost on one inmate, revealing that escape is still possible even from the most oppressive conditions leads the patients to freedom.
27 July 1936
23 July 1922, Chicago, Illinois, USA
18 July 1956, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
1 September 1950, USA
25 September 1946, Havana, Cuba
9 October 1903, Hillsboro, Ohio, USA
26 January 1927, New York City, New York, USA
22 July 1934, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
2 June 1906, Hutchinson, Kansas, USA
February 23, 2015
It was Nicholson's first Oscar win and this remains, in many ways, his signature performance.
February 19, 2008
Jack Nicholson stars in an outstanding characterization of Ken Kesey's asylum anti-hero, McMurphy, and Milos Forman's direction of a superbly-cast film is equally meritorious.
February 20, 2009
One Flew over the Cuckoo 's Nest is an earnest attempt to make a serious film. But in the end the movie backs away from both the human reality and the cloudy but potent symbolism that Ken Kesey found in the asylum.
April 13, 2017
A dark vision of the American psychiatric system which incorporates a tragic seam of comedy.
April 13, 2017
Nicholson captures all the daredevil rebel spirit of Randle P. McMurphy, a prisoner who is transferred to a state mental institution.
April 17, 2017
Whatever you make of the counterculture sentimentalism in the film's story of a rebellious mental patient, [Nicholson's] performance is superb, a showcase both for his wolfish glints and for his more subtle abilities.
February 23, 2015
Nicholson explodes on the screen in a performance so flawless in timing and character perception that it should send half the stars in Hollywood back to acting school.
April 13, 2017
Watching this again, I am less inclined to regard Nurse Ratched as a simple villain, despite her vindictive humiliation of poor, shy Billy, and more like a professional who refuses to be bullied by a bunch of men.
September 09, 2010
There's a lot here. But with a classic like Cuckoo's Nest, too much is never enough.
November 04, 2008
Viewed 30 years after its release, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest remains a very good motion picture, although one that perhaps just misses the pinnacle of greatness where its reputation suggests it resides.
April 10, 2017
Unlike its frontman, this multi-Oscar-winning drama hasn't aged particularly well.
April 17, 2017
It's not just Nicholson's performance that makes this film a masterpiece; it's the fact that Forman was able to prevent that performance from capsizing the whole enterprise.