One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Blu-ray) R
If he's crazy, what does that make you?
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 9 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: July 15, 2008
- Originally Released: 1975
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jack Nicholson | |
Performer: | Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Will Sampson, Brad Dourif, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco, William Duell, Nathan George, Paul Lambert, Sydney Lassick, Ted Markland, Louisa Moritz, Vincent Schiavelli, Mwako Cumbuka & Marya Small | |
Directed by | Milos Forman | |
Edited by | Richard Chew, Sheldon Kahn & Lynzee Klingman | |
Screenwriting by | Lawrence Hauben & Bo Goldman | |
Composition by | Jack Nitzsche | |
Story by | Ken Kesey | |
Produced by | Michael Douglas & Saul Zaentz | |
Director of Photography: | Bill Butler, Haskell Wexler & William A. Fraker |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1975 -
Best Actor: Jack Nicholson
Academy Awards 1975 -
Best Actress: Louise Fletcher
Academy Awards 1975 -
Best Director: Milos Forman
Academy Awards 1975 -
Best Film Editing: Sheldon Kahn
Academy Awards 1975 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1975 -
Best Screenplay Adapted from Other Material: Bo Goldman & Lawrence Hauben
Entertainment Reviews:
A film has to be able to stand on its own legs, separate from the work that inspires it, or not at all. Cuckoo's Nest rears back and lets its lifeblood flow.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
Rating: A --
There's a lot here. But with a classic like Cuckoo's Nest, too much is never enough.
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Entertainment Weekly
Milos Forman's masterpiece.
Total Film
Nicholson's manic and slightly corrosive charm motors this study of one roistering inmate's effect on an entire mental institution.
Premiere
It could be said that the film is Jack Nicholson, with his incredible range from humor to drama, from pure physical pain to anguish or melancholy. Everything in him is alive, transparent. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Rating: 5/5 --
A dark vision of the American psychiatric system which incorporates a tragic seam of comedy.
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Little White Lies
...[Nicholson's] flamboyant performance is balanced perfectly by superb character turns from Brad Dourif, Christopher Lloyd and Danny DeVito...
Sight and Sound
Product Description:
Milos Foreman's ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, based on the novel by Ken Kesey and the play by Dale Wasserman, presents a biting and ultimately tragic satire about mental institutions and the human spirit. A disturbing, witty, and electrifying drama, the film won the 1975 Academy Award for Best Picture. R.P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), a misbehaved con who shirks authority, finds himself in an asylum after faking insanity to get out of work detail in prison. The vivacious troublemaker soon finds himself in a worse kind of prison--one presided over by the repressed, terrifyingly quiet Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher), whose set of rules and regulations are meant to suppress patients' psychotic outbursts, and their spirits. It's not long before McMurphy is reaching out to his new inmates, trying desperately to bring life to an otherwise dead atmosphere. To Ratched, however, Nicholson's free spirit is as dangerous as a schizophrenic impulse. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST is brilliantly acted by an ensemble that includes Brad Dourif, Christopher Lloyd, Vincent Schiavelli, and Danny DeVito.
Description by Warner Home Video:
A nice rest in a state mental 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 tongue, fakes insanity and moves in with what he calls the "nuts." Immediately, his contagious sense of disorder runs up against numbing routine. No way should guys pickled on sedatives shuffle around in bathrobes when the World Series is on. This means war! On one side is McMurphy. On the other is soft-spoken Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher), among the most coldly monstrous villains in film history. At stake is the fate of every patient on the ward.
Based on Ken Kesey's acclaimed bestseller, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest sweptall five major 1975 Academy Awards: Best Picture (produced by Saul Zaentz and Michael Douglas), Actor (Nicholson), Actress (Fletcher), Director (Milos Forman) and Adapted Screenplay (Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman). Raucous, searing and with a superb cast that includes Brad Dourif, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd in his film debut, this one soars.