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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
133 min.
8.3
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Synopsis
A misbehaved con named McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), who shirks authority, finds himself in an asylum after faking insanity to get out of work detail in prison. The troublemaker soon finds himself in a place that's worse than prison when he meets 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 and pit them against the dictatorship of Ratched, who thinks McMurphy's free spirit is as dangerous as a schizophrenic impulse.
Genre
Drama Disease/illness Disability Comedy-Drama Cult Movie
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/ United States United States
Original title:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Running time
133 min.
Screenwriter
Bo Goldman
Screenwriter
Lawrence Hauben
Screenwriter
Ken Kesey
Novel
Music
Jack Nitzsche
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Cinematography
Haskell Wexler
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 #23
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 #30
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Oscar™ Best Picture - Winning Movies
Awards
1975: 5 Academy Awards: Movie, Director, Actor (Nicholson), Actress (Fletcher), Ad. Screenplay
1975: 5 Golden Globes: Movie, Director, Actor (Nicholson), Actress (Fletcher), Screenplay
1976: BAFTA Awards: 6 Awards including Best Movie, Director and Actor. 10 Nominations
1976: César Awards: Nominated Best Foreign Film
1975: New York Film Critics Circle: Best Actor (Nicholson). 2 Nominations
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"Nicholson explodes on the screen in a performance so flawless in timing and character perception that it should send half the stars in Hollywood back to acting school"
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[New York Daily News]
"A comedy that can't quite support its (...) 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."
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[The New York Times]
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