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Bookmark this pageOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Director: Milos Forman
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From Time Out Film Guide
A strictly realistic approach to Ken Kesey's novel confines the horizons of the original into a saner, less delirious tragi-comedy. Set in an insane asylum, the film involves the oppression of the individual, a struggle spearheaded by an ebullient Nicholson, turning in a star performance if ever there was one as he leads his fellow-inmates against the sinisterly well-meaning Nurse Ratched (Fletcher). For all the film's painstaking sensitivity and scrupulous chartings of energies and repressions, one longs for more muscle, which only Nicholson consistently provides.Author: CPe
Cast & crew
Director: Milos Forman
Producer: Saul Zaentz, Michael Douglas
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Will Sampson, Brad Dourif, Sydney Lassick, Christopher Lloyd, Danny DeVito, Delos V Smith Jr, Marya Small, Louisa Moritz, Dean R Brooks, Scatman Crothers full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 134 mins
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