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| Director: Milos Forman
Actors: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco
Studio: Warner
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  305 reviews
Sales Rank: 8617
Format: Color, Special Edition, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 133
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 00417
UPC: 883929004171
EAN: 0883929004171
ASIN: B00168IWU0
Theatrical Release Date: 1975
Release Date: July 15, 2008
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One of the key movies of the 1970s, when exciting, groundbreaking, personal films were still being made in Hollywood, Milos Forman's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest emphasized the humanistic story at the heart of Ken Kesey's more hallucinogenic novel. Jack Nicholson was born to play the part of Randle Patrick McMurphy, the rebellious inmate of a psychiatric hospital who fights back against the authorities' cold attitudes of institutional superiority, as personified by Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher). It's the classic antiestablishment tale of one man asserting his individuality in the face of a repressive, conformist system--and it works on every level. Forman populates his film with memorably eccentric faces, and gets such freshly detailed and spontaneous work from his ensemble that the picture sometimes feels like a documentary. Unlike a lot of films pitched at the "youth culture" of the 1970s, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest really hasn't dated a bit, because the qualities of human nature that Forman captures--playfulness, courage, inspiration, pride, stubbornness--are universal and timeless. The film swept the Academy Awards for 1976, winning in all the major categories (picture, director, actor, actress, screenplay) for the first time since Frank Capra's It Happened One Night in 1931. --Jim Emerson
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Warner Brothers One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Blu-ray) A nice rest in a state mental hospital beats a stretch in the pen, right? Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), a free-spirited con with lightning in his veins and glib on his tongue, fakes insanity and moves in with what he calls the "nuts." Immediately, his contagious sense of disorder runs up against numbing routine. No way should guys pickled on sedatives shuffle around in bathrobes when the World Series is on. This means war! On one side is McMurphy. On the other is soft-spoken Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher), among the most coldly monstrous villains in film history. At stake is the fate of every patient on the ward.
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 Job Well Done September 24, 2008
If you were in a mental institution but had the opportunity to watch this film, the glass would be half full.
 Movie: 4.5/5 Picture Quality: 2.75~4/5 Sound Quality: 1.5/5 Extras: 2.5/5 September 1, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Title: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Version: U.S.A / VC-1 BD-25 / Region Free
Running time: 2:13:42
Movie size: 17,720,721,408 bytes
Disc size: 21,099,357,516 bytes
Average video bit rate: 14.25 Mbps
Dolby Digital Audio English 640 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps
Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 1.0 / 48kHz / 192kbps
Dolby Digital Audio French 192 kbps 1.0 / 48kHz / 192kbps
Dolby Digital Audio German 192 kbps 1.0 / 48kHz / 192kbps
Dolby Digital Audio Italian 192 kbps 1.0 / 48kHz / 192kbps
Dolby Digital Audio Spanish 192 kbps 1.0 / 48kHz / 192kbps
Dolby Digital Audio Spanish 192 kbps 1.0 / 48kHz / 192kbps
Subtitles: English / Danish / Dutch / Finnish / French / German / Italian / Japanese / Korean / Norwegian / Portuguese / Spanish / Swedish
Number of chapters: 34
#Audio Commentary
#Documentary: "The Making of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'" (SD, 47 minutes)
#Deleted Scenes (SD, 19 minutes)
#Theatrical Trailer (SD)
#Collectible Booklet - Digi-book - 32-page, full color booklet.
 How Times Change August 31, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
While I commend the excellent acting of the main characters, I found the film to be boring. After an hour of Nicholson's antics and conflict with the hospital--enough already! The believability is poor. No wonder the novel's author sued. When the Chief is carrying the cabinet, he can barely walk and breathe. But the next shot shows it flying out the heavy-metal screened window like it was launched from a catapult. That action clearly made enough noise to awaken most of the hospital, yet we see many of the patients in that very ward slowly waking up due to other noise.
One of the best acted movies ever! August 17, 2008
The story is not just great--the acting is what really makes it. The acting is supreb, and I'm not just talking about Nicholson! I LOVE the scene where Sydney Lassick (Charley Cheswick) throws a temper tantrum wanting his cigarettes. It is so convincingly real! It was not under or over acted. He hit the nail on the head with that scene. And it is also one of the funniest--especially when the orderlies think Taber is freaking out when he is actually getting burned with a cigarette). Just excellent!
"She Likes A Rigged Game." July 20, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
At one point in this movie that is one of the great classics of American films, McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) says of Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) that "she likes a rigged game." And does she ever. She will keep order and conformity at all costs and has to be one of the most despised characters in filmdom. Watching the sparks fly between her and Nicholson as the inmate who fakes mental illness to get sent from prison to a psychiatric hospital is a joy to behold. Both Fletcher and Nicholson, who has never been better in a role, received Oscars for their performances as did the director Milos Forman ("Amadeus"). The film, adapted from the Ken Kesey novel, won best picture as well.
From the opening credits to the closing horrifying scene, this movie holds you in its spellbinding clutches. I cannot recall as good a group of supporting actors as the psychiatric inmates. The are totally convincing and you almost believe that they are actual patients and not acting.
The film makes a compelling statement about the way we treat mental illness in this country as well as so-called professionals who refuse to listen to their patients.
While there are many moments here that will make your laugh, the last few minutes of the film are as dark as anything you will see. It is even better than I remembered.
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