One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
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- Synopsis
- The anti-Establishment classic based on the Ken Kesey cult novel, Jack Nicholson stars as a free spirit sent to an asylum to avoid prison. There his independent spirit unites the other patients against the autocratic Nurse Ratchet (Louise Fletcher)....
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- Director(s)
- Milos Forman
- Distributor(s)
- Fantast Films
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 133 min.
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Variety | Staff (Not credited)Add Critic to Favorites
Brilliant cinema theatre.Read the full review
Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites
So good in so many of its parts that there's a temptation to forgive it when it goes wrong. But it does go wrong, insisting on making larger points than its story really should carry, so that at the end, the human qualities of the characters get lost in the significance of it all. And yet there are those moments of brilliance.Read the full review
The New York Times | Vincent CanbyAdd Critic to Favorites
A comedy that can't quite support its tragic conclusion, which is too schematic to be honestly moving, but it is acted with such a sense of life that one responds to its demonstration of humanity if not to its programmed metaphors.Read the full review
