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- Anti HeroesFighting the SystemHuman SpiritDoctors and PatientsWrongfully CommittedConfinedHopesLife is a Bitch more...
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- Drama
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- 20th Century60s
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- Mental Institution
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1975
English
USA
Profile of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The mood of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is disturbing, emotional, and contemplative. The plot centers around a character who has been wrongfully committed, doctors and patients, and antiheroes. It is a drama movie. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in a mental institution. It happens in the 1960s. It is based on a book. The movie is known for being a classic, an Oscar winner, and a masterpiece. Note that it includes brief nudity and mild violent content.
Summary of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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.
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| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 19 November 1975 |
| Runtime: | 133 min |
| Awards: | Academy Awards |
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- by: S.W.
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