One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

It's tough to really judge this movie. Is it Milos Forman's greatest directorial masterpiece or Jack Nicholson's best performance. Tough to say, but the marriage between both director and actor are quite phenomenal. From the first time we see Jack... Read more at imdb.com

Based on the amazing novel by Ken Kesey, Randall Patrick McMurphy is an antisocial and dangerous man no different than a petty criminal, placed in a mental ward to have his behavior studied. He makes friends with lunatics and starts... Read more at imdb.com

Czech director Milos Forman seems to be obsessed with rebellious characters that don't like to go with the flow. Just think about Larry Flynt in "The People vs. Larry Flynt" or Andy Kaufman in "Man on the Moon", in the... Read more at imdb.com

First thing's first, while I watched this movie, I found myself stunned. This movie so entertained the viewer, as it did fascinate, and inform. A chilling, disturbing, and revealing look into the mental institutions as seen through the eyes of... Read more at imdb.com

The opening shot of ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST is a bleak glance at an Oregon morning. Stirring, haunting music plays gracefully on the soundtrack and a car approaches. Inside the car is one of film history's most remarkable... Read more at imdb.com

Milos Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a landmark (one of the few I might add) in cinema. Pretty much everything in this film is at or close to perfection. And rightfully so, it became only the 2nd... Read more at imdb.com

Jack Nicholson is a great actor. No, not a great actor, a spectacular actor. This is a film from fairly early in his career, as well as it is for several other actors in this film, who later have had... Read more at imdb.com

What a movie, what an excellent movie!!! That is what first went through my mind after seeing this masterpiece. I've seen many movies, but there aren't much movies which had such an impact on me. Nowadays almost all filmmakers believe... Read more at imdb.com

I went into this film with the knowledge that it had been the second film in history to win the 'top five' Oscars (for Best Picture, Best actor, Best actress, Best director and best screenplay) and has been praised as... Read more at imdb.com

Jack Nicholson had been nominated four times, he had lost four times. Each time he probably should have won, but he never did. Just when you thought there was no justice in the world, Jack finally came through with "One... Read more at imdb.com

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest manages to be very depressing and uplifting at the same time. At the most fundamental level the movie is just a great story that is told very well.There are no obvious (or even minuscule) flaws in Cuckoo's Nest, the film is full of great moments (prepare to watch Randall work the floor for votes to watch a World Series game several times) but be prepared for a break from the standard Hollywood offerings. ... Full Review

Mac seems doomed to fail, because One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a parable for how our society refuses to tolerate nonconformity. Best Picture 1975 AFI 100: #20 unforgettable movie moment: Mac calls an imaginary baseball game when Nurse Ratched refuses to turn on the TV to let the ward watch a World Series game. ... Full Review

As I stated above, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST remains a potent piece of character-based cinema. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST is also a character drama that benefits from an impressive array of supporting performances. ... Full Review

Blessed with a subtle humour, a great sense of humanity, and a spine-tingling theremin dominated score, Cuckoos Nest is a film everyone should have seen (if only so you can understand some of the Simpson parodies). Though a consummate critics darling, the film can be enjoyed by anyone, refusing to resort to overwrought dramatics in order to get its simple message across. ... Full Review

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest " (1975) is on every list of favorite films. Jack is a beloved American presence, a superb actor who even more crucially is a superb male sprite. The message for these wretched inmates is: Be like Jack. ... Full Review

This year started with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in April and will continue with Cabaret in November and Jean Shepherd's A Christmas Story in December. ... Full Article

One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest is the quintessential tale of a defiant and creative mind that questions and collides with authority. The novel, written by Ken Kesey and published in 1962, takes place in an all-male Oregon mental hospital... ... Full Article

SALEM, ORE.So long, Cuckoo's Nest. Oregon State Hospital, the mental institution where the 1975 movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was filmed, is making way for a new complex. Most of the dilapidated, 125-year-old main building will be torn ... Full Article

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest might be the last call for the early-70s Hollywood art film. Within a year or two some of the decade's best-reviewed directors would be scrambling to find work, as the... ... Full Article

One of the great films of the 1970s, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was also one of the last movies of the Easy Riders, Raging Bulls era of American Cinema, before the success of films like Jaws and Star... ... Full Article