Movie #14: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Movie #: 14
Movie Title: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Year Released: 1975

Director: Miloš Forman
Notable Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Will Sampson, Brad Dourif, Sydney Lassick, Christopher Lloyd, Danny DeVito, Dean Brooks

Short Description: A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: #33
IMDB.com: #12
Ranker.com: #18
Lifed.com: #11
Empire.com: N/A
FilmCrave.com: #19
FlickChart.com: #16



Date Watched: 12/3/2016

Grade: 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)

Rationale: Very similar to how I feel about The Shining, there's no way that One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest works well without Jack Nicholson's particular brand of crazy. The story becomes more fun as the movie chugs along with one instance of rebellion and disregard for rules building upon the previous. Nurse Ratched, often listed as one of the greatest villains in movie history, doesn't seem very villainous per se, rather, almost as a sympathetic character while Nicholson's R.P. McMurphy does everything he can to bring anarchy to the nut house.