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Actors: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco Director: Milos Forman Rating: Features: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC Number of Discs: 1 Running Time: 134 minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Release Date: December 17, 1997 Theatrical Release Date: 1975 Studio: Warner Home Video
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Story of a free-spirit and his adventures in a mental ward. Nicholson stars as the rebellious McMurphy who battles Nurse Ratched Fletcher and the institution. Genre: Feature Film-Drama Rating: R Release Date: 16-MAY-2006 Media Type: DVD
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
