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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, Amazon
Brad Dourif won the Golden Globe for best debut by an actor,
and was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. --Scott Supak, BMP
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• Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Black & White, Widescreen
• Production notes
• Full-screen and widescreen letterbox formats
Best Actor
Jack Nicholson |
Best Actress
Louise Fletcher |
Best Director
Milos Forman |
Best Picture
Michael Douglas
Saul Zaentz |
Best Writing, Screenplay Adapted From Other Material
Bo Goldman
Lawrence Hauben |
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| Jack Nicholson |
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Randle Patrick McMurphy |
| Louise Fletcher |
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Nurse Ratched |
| William Redfield |
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Harding |
| Michael Berryman |
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Ellis |
| Peter Brocco |
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Col. Matterson |
| Dean R. Brooks |
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Dr. Spivey |
| Alonzo Brown |
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Miller |
| Scatman Crothers |
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Orderly Turkle |
| Mwako Cumbuka |
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Warren |
| Danny DeVito |
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Martini |
| William Duell |
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Sefelt |
| Josip Elic |
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Bancini |
| Lan Fendors |
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Nurse Itsu |
| Nathan George |
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Attendant Washington |
| Ken Kenny (II) |
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Beans Garfield |
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