One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (Blu-ray) (1975)

Editor's Note 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.

	Louise Fletcher
	Mwako Cumbuka
	Michael Berryman
	Vincent Schiavelli
	William Duell
	Jack Nicholson
	Danny DeVito
	Brad Dourif
	Dean R. Brooks
	Nathan George
	William Redfield
	Sydney Lassick
	Ted Markland
	Will Sampson
	Louisa Moritz
	Peter Brocco
	Christopher Lloyd
	Marya Small
	Scatman Crothers
	Paul Lambert
	Jack Nitzsche - Composer
	William A. Fraker - Director of Photography
	Lynzee Klingman - Editor
	Sheldon Kahn - Editor
	Bill Butler - Director of Photography
	Haskell Wexler - Director of Photography
	Richard Chew - Editor
	Aggie Guerard Rodgers - Costume Designer
	Lawrence Hauben - Screenwriter
	Ken Kesey - Story
	Saul Zaentz - Producer
	Paul Sylbert - Production Designer
	Bo Goldman - Screenwriter
	Michael Douglas - Producer
	Milos Forman - Director

USA Today
"...[A] masterpiece..." 01/09/1998 p.3D

Chicago Bulletin
"...Nicholson's performance is one of the high points in a long career of enviable rebels..." 02/02/2003 p.5

Sight and Sound
"...[Nicholson's] flamboyant performance is balanced perfectly by superb character turns from Brad Dourif, Christopher Lloyd and Danny DeVito..." 12/01/2002 p.64

Premiere
"Nicholson's manic and slightly corrosive charm motors this study of one roistering inmate's effect on an entire mental institution." 04/01/2004 p.70

Total Film
"Milos Forman's masterpiece." 03/01/2004 p.5

Entertainment Weekly
"Nicholson's live-wire performance turns what could have been a standard movie malcontent into a martyr." -- Grade: A 09/17/2010