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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Milos Forman |
| Stars: |
Jack Nicholson |
| Actors: |
Michael Berryman |
| Genre: |
Dramas |
| Subgenre: |
Recommended · Character Study · Prison/Prisoners · Psychodrama · Social Issues · Mental Illness · Essential Cinema · Classic |
| MPAA Rating: |
R (MPAA) |
| Available Formats: |
DVD: Two Disc Special Edition |
| UPC: |
085393622220 |
| Release Date: |
1975 |
| Running Time: |
2hr 16min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD Release Company: Warner Home Video (January 08, 2008) UPC: 883929005505 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 2hr 9min UPC: 026359104831 |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Bo Goldman |
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Professional Reviews
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(12/01/2002, p.64, Geoffrey Macnab): "...[Nicholson's] flamboyant performance is balanced perfectly by superb character turns from Brad Dourif, Christopher Lloyd and Danny DeVito..." |
| More Information |
| Details: |
Milos Foreman's ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, based on the novel by Ken Kesey and the play by Dale Wasserman, presents a biting and ultimately tragic satire about mental institutions and the human spirit. A disturbing, witty, and electrifying drama, the film won the 1975 Academy Award for Best Picture. R.P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), a misbehaved con who shirks authority, finds himself in an asylum after faking insanity to get out of work detail in prison. The vivacious troublemaker soon finds himself in a worse kind of prison--one presided over by the repressed, terrifyingly quiet Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher), whose set of rules and regulations are meant to suppress patients' psychotic outbursts, and their spirits. It's not long before McMurphy is reaching out to his new inmates, trying desperately to bring life to an otherwise dead atmosphere. To Ratched, however, Nicholson's free spirit is as dangerous as a schizophrenic impulse. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST is brilliantly acted by an ensembl... |
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