One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest [Blu-ray] DVD Review

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest [Blu-ray]

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Date Added : February 22nd, 2009 - Viewed: 1686 times

One of the key movies of the 1970s, when 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

Starring: Jack Nicholson, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco, Dean R. Brooks, Jr. Alonzo Brown, Scatman Crothers
Directed by: Milos Forman
Written by: Ken Kesey, Lawrence Hauben (screenplay) and Bo Goldman (screenplay)
Format: Color, Special Edition, Widescreen
Language: English
Subtitles: N/A
Region: Region 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number of Discs: 1
Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio : Warner
DVD Release Date : 2008-07-15
Run Time : 133 minutes
ASIN/ISBN : B00168IWU0
Retail : $34.99
Awards : Won 5 Oscars. Another 28 wins & 11 nominations

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