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One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Playing crazy to avoid prison work detail, manic free spirit Randle P. McMurphy is sent to the state mental hospital for evaluation. He fits in frighteningly well, and his different point of view actually begins to cause some of the patients to progress.
17 November 1944, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA
9 October 1903, Hillsboro, Ohio, USA
10 March 1921, Butte, Montana, USA
7 July 1939, Portland, Oregon, USA
25 September 1946, Havana, Cuba
22 July 1916, Colony, Kansas, USA
8 July 1951, Santa Monica, California, USA
22 July 1934, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
23 May 1910, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
18 July 1956, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
22 October 1938, Stamford, Connecticut, USA
16 January 1903, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
April 13, 2017
Nicholson captures all the daredevil rebel spirit of Randle P. McMurphy, a prisoner who is transferred to a state mental institution.
September 09, 2010
There's a lot here. But with a classic like Cuckoo's Nest, too much is never enough.
April 13, 2017
A dark vision of the American psychiatric system which incorporates a tragic seam of comedy.
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.
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.
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 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
It was Nicholson's first Oscar win and this remains, in many ways, his signature performance.
April 10, 2017
Unlike its frontman, this multi-Oscar-winning drama hasn't aged particularly well.
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.
