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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest By Jim Emerson
One of the key movies of the Super70s, 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, 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.
Academy Awards
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest received Academy Awards
for Best Picture (Saul Zaentz - Producer, Michael Douglas - Producer),
Actor (Jack Nicholson), Actress (Louise Fletcher), Writing (Best
Screenplay adapted from other material; Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman),
Supporting Actor (Brad Dourif), and Directing (Milos Forman). One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
also received Academy Awards nominations
for Cinematography (Haskell Wexler, Bill Butler), Film Editing (Richard
Chew, Lynzee Klingman, Sheldon Kahn), and Music Scoring Awards (Best
Original Score; Jack Nitzsche). |
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"All I remember about this movie is that my father was watching it on video,and the whole time he said things like " This is what is going to happen to you if your bad". So I a way he scared me for life! I have never watched it since!" --tt |
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| | Director: Milos Forman
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| | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Brad Dourif, William Redfield, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco, Will Sampson, Scatman Crothers, Danny De Vito, Christopher Lloyd, Vincent Schiavelli
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| | Released: November 20, 1975
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