One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
In this clean, orderly, disciplined world, who needs guys like McMurphy? Everybody.
In this clean, orderly, disciplined world, who needs guys like McMurp...
Drama
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1975
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Chief Bromden, a gigantic Euro-Indigenous American patient at a psychiatric hospital, who presents himself as deaf, mute, and docile. Bromden's tale focuses mainly on the antics of tale focuses mainly on the antics of the rebellious Randle Patrick McMurphy, a petty criminal who, fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
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Runtime:
135 min
Release date:
19 Nov 1975
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$3,000,000
Revenue:
$108,981,275
Awards:
Won 5 Oscars. 38 wins & 15 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
There's a lot here. But with a classic like Cuckoo's Nest, too much is never enough.
– Chris Nashawaty,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Sep 2010
rotten:
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.
– Richard Schickel,
TIME Magazine,
20 Feb 2009
fresh:
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.
– James Berardinelli,
ReelViews,
4 Nov 2008
fresh:
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.
– A.D. Murphy,
Variety,
19 Feb 2008
fresh:
Jack Nicholson plays McMurphy as if he were born to it, and the supporting cast provides fine, detailed performances.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
13 Dec 2006