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Summary: This is a great movie!
Review: Now, I haven't reviewed for a while, but here goes. (...) This certainly isn't the greatest DVD technically, with mediocre sound and picture quality. But that does nothing against the simple genious of this movie. Jack Nicholson is excellent, simply wonderful. The best role I've seen him in, and I've seen him in a lot of damn roles. This was such a disturbing movie, and the cast was great. Danny Devito and Christopher Loyd were great. Of course, nurse ratchet is one of the coldest and most infuriating characters I've seen in a movie. Rarely am I really so touched and distrubed by a movie, but this really touched me unimaginably. I really don't care if people think this movie is inappropriate for children (I am 13) I think for children to be kept in a bubble, isolated from the cruelty of the world, is one of the greatest sins to be commited. Show this to kids like us, we will understand.
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Summary: one flew over the cukoo's nest
Review: i thank the move is good.
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larry pless
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Summary: In one word:AWESOME!!!
Review: This movie is wonderful! The acting was perfect(Jack Nicholson was playing guy who was sick in the head, like The Shining). The setting was exceptional and the characters were funny. This is a kind of comedy that is not laughing at the mentally disturbed people, but that shows the other side of their sickness. They want their freedom, they don't know what to choose, and all other details make them interesting characters. We pity them when the guards are mean to them and we finally hate the guards. In normal movies, it would have been the opposite;the patients would be dangerous and the guards would be the good guys. This would be like telling to the audience''those sick people are dangerous. A real moral that will make you laugh in a good way. A masterpiece!
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Summary: A masterpiece
Review: This film belongs on a short list of the best American movies ever made. Jack Nicholson plays Randle P. McMurphy, a small-time convict who feigns insanity for a transfer to a mental hospital, which he thinks will be an easier place to do his time. On the contrary, he finds himself in conflict with Nurse Rached (Louise Fletcher), who seems to be more interested in control than therapy. This film is in the same vein as "Cool Hand Luke": the protagonists of both films are irrepressible individuals whose refusal (or inability) to acknowledge authority puts them squarely into direct conflict with a system that ultimately destroys them physically without conquering their spirits. "Cuckoo's Nest," however, is even better than that fine film. The entire cast is excellent, but Nicholson is astonishing. Although this is ultimately a very serious film, it has a lot of laughs too, which makes it a thoroughly entertaining experience.
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Summary: Best Movie of 1975!!
Review: A nice rest in a mental state hospital beats a stretch in the pen, right? Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) a free-spirited con with lightning in his veins and glib on his tounge, fakes insanity and moves in with what he calls the "nuts". Immediately, his contanges sense of disorder runs up against their numbing rotine. No way should guys pickled on sedatives shuffle around in bathrobes when the world series is on. This means war! On one side McMurphy, and on the othe is soft-spoken Nurse Ratched (Louise Flecther), among the most coldly monstrous villains in film history. At stake is the fate of every paitent in the ward.
Based on Ken Kesey's acclimen besteller, One Fle Over The Cuckoo's Nest swept all five major 1975 Academy Awards. Best pitcure (produced by Saul Zaentz and Michael Douglas), Actor (Nicholson), Actress (Flecther), Director (Milos Forman), and Screenplay (Lawerance Hauben and Bo Goldman). Raucous, searing and with a superb cast that includes Brad Douif, Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd in his film debut, this one soars.
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Summary: Wonderful, Disturbing Masterpiece of Film
Review: In 1976, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" won the five top Oscars (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Screenplay), and was the first movie in 45 years to do so. It deserved it. This film is inspiring, disturbing, tragic, triumphant, and gripping.Jack Nicholson, playing the part he was destined to play, is Randall Patrick McMurphy, a rebellious misfit who convinces people that he belongs in a mental institution so that he can get out of a sentence on a work-farm. He arrives on the secure psychiatric ward and runs head-on into a brick wall named Nurse Ratched, played superbly by Louise Fletcher. Nurse Ratched is in absolute control of herself and the ward, and rules quietly and calmly but with an iron fist. The ward is populated with a very strange group of misfits (it is a psychiatric ward after all), including a young Danny DeVito, a young Brad Dourif, and a young Christopher Lloyd. They follow Nurse Ratched's harmonious routine, day in and day out, with all the appearance of striving for improvement, but with no real gains being made by anyone. Of course, the calm, quiet, go-nowhere routine under a serenely despotic Nurse Ratched is loathsome to Randall Patrick McMurphy, and the two elemental forces of Ratched and McMurphy clash and clash and clash. Who wins the battle? In a concrete way, Nurse Ratched eventually wins. On a bigger level, you make the call. Two supporting actors should also have won Oscars (sharing it would have been perfect). Will Sampson plays a huge, mute Native American who was committed after killing his father (nowadays it would be called euthanasia). He provides the film with one of the most eerily and tragically triumphant endings in movie history (with very eery music to match). Brad Dourif plays a neurotic, stuttering young man who longs to be normal but is terrified of his mother's disapproval (and his mother is good friends with Nurse Ratched). This movie addresses themes of independence, individuality, the question of where one's personal rights end and society's rights start, and the definition of what is "normal". Who is more sane, Nurse Ratched or Randall Patrick McMurphy? The easy answer is Nurse Ratched. I'm not sure. I wouldn't want either for a next-door neighbor. Watch the movie and ask yourself that question. It's a tough one to answer. A very rich film.
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Summary: A bit overrated.
Review: I thought this movie was good, but it is not one of my favorites. Infact, I think that it would of been my last choice for best picture. I just don't see how this could win over Jaws, Barry Lyndon, Nashville and Dog Day Afternoon. Those are all great movies. This wasn't a bad film, I guess I just didn't understand it. It reminded me a lot of Girl Interrupted.
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Summary: Great movie......Jack Nicholson is amazing!
Review: Jack Nicholson's performance is simply mindblowing... The character 'Randall P. McMurphy' is so beautfully played by him that you actually think the movie's about Jack Nicholson.
He's a criminal who's been convicted. He fakes insanity and is sent to The State Mental Institution for treatment. This movie is about the mental patients and how they deal with their day-to-day lives. What they look like in the real sense, what they eat, what they do for recreation, how they can't get along with each other. There are a lot of funny things attached to the same as well. The beauty of the movie is that it depicts so many things and yet it is so plain and simple. It also says that in order to do something great and different in life you have to be free in the mind, you have to think freely! Jack Nicholson truly deserved the Oscar.
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Summary: Powerful
Review: I liked this movie even better than the book upon which it is based. I grew up in the Soviet Union, and that is where I saw the movie for the first time, long after it was released in the States. Jack Nicholson played his role to perfection. This movie can be emotionally hard to watch. It depicts an insane asylum as a metaphor for totalitarian society. In such a society the notion of individual human dignity does not exist. The Big Nurse takes care of people's survival, but this survival is not much more than vegetation--the human spirit is broken. We see that people fall into the hands of such society, when their spirits are already at their lowest and they see no point in living actively and productively, but simply live out the rest of their days--physical survival is all that remains to them. Against this despiritualization and humiliation Jack Nicholson's character muster up his humor and his unruly ways. It is tragic, sad, and thoughtful. Yet the end is also hopeful. This movie is relevant for any country, for even in the most free society, there are people who are dead or are dying inside. And even in such free societies there are well-wishing, order-promoting "nurses" who kill the spirit and almost force the good to become insane.
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Summary: MMMMMMMMmmmmmmm Juicy Fruit
Review: This film is an absolute joy to watch and thoroughly deserved the Oscars it was awarded. Nicholson is in his career-best role as R.P McMurphy, a mischeivous scamp with a penchant for gambling and fun, who decides pretending to be insane beats a stretch in the pen. While there he meets the silently monsterous Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) who has the other patients in her pocket. McMurphy takes it upon himself to fight against the regime the others have become institutionalised to. It seems to have inspired fantastic performances from all of the cast some of whom have become A-list stars like Danny De-Vito. It also contains a pre-Chucky Brad Dourif, and future member of the Addams Family Christopher Lloyd. I cannot recommend this film highly enough. DVD version, as it's hard to track down the VHS with decent picture and sound it's probably worth it but there are no special features to speak of. A missed opportunity.
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