One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Name: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Genre: Drama
Released: 1975-11-19
Duration: 135 min

In this clean, orderly, disciplined world, who needs guys like McMurphy? Everybody.

19752h 15mcritics 8.4/10

Drama

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.

starring Jack Nicholson, Brad Dourif, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito

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Read from 101 comments (49 from Reddit, 48 from Metacritic, 4 from TMDB reviews) — 17 of them described how it moves.

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Reddit33 read

“especially in the scene where Chief Brommden attempt to escape.”
picotipicota1▲ 20about 75–100% inread it ↗
“my mother told me the ending was "disturbing"”
papawam▲ 12about 75–100% inread it ↗
“that scene when Ratched says that to the stuttering guy then he kills himself than jack takes revenge on Ratched then is set free spiritually through the chief”
musiclover198734▲ 4about 75–100% inread it ↗
“Aaaand then we started watching it and I was hooked. I had to wait a whole week to see the rest of the movie and I was dying to see what was going to happen next.”
Queef-Elizabeth▲ 2about 0–100% inread it ↗

Metacritic25 read

“From the striking opening scenes depicting the institutionalized environment to the arrival of Randle P. McMurphy, portrayed with compelling intensity by Jack Nicholson, the film sets the stage for a profound exploration of the human psyche.”
blapointabout 0–15% inread it ↗
“is often hard to watch”
tjman09about 0–100% inread it ↗
“From the moment you see Jack Nicholson walk on screen you're hooked”
milogoldabout 0–15% inread it ↗
“As the narrative accelerates toward its conclusion, McMurphy risks all in a final gambit. When he loses, we know it's over for him.”
AnaDaviesabout 75–100% inread it ↗

TMDB2 read

“it is an extremely frustrating film”
wizzardssabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“**Subject to the silliest of internet theories** There are a lot of movie theories but the silliest of all is this nonsense that is all over the internet claiming that _the Chief killed the unresponsive McMurphy because he thought McMurphy was ignoring him._ These idiots claim the Chief did not notice the scars on McMurphy's head and simply thought the unresponsive McMurphy was ignoring him - so the Chief kills him in a fit of rage. Ridiculous. The Chief killed McMurphy as an act of _k”
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