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  • 1975
  • R
  • United Artists
  • 2 h 13 m
  • 1975
  • R
  • United Artists
  • 2 h 13 m

Summary A nice rest in a state mental hospital beats a stretch in the pen, right? Randle P. McMurphy (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 pick...

Directed By: Milos Forman

Written By: Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman, Ken Kesey, Dale Wasserman

  • 1975
  • R
  • United Artists
  • 2 h 13 m
  • 1975
  • R
  • United Artists
  • 2 h 13 m

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 20 Critic Reviews
must-see
84
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 555 User Ratings
8.7
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Summary A nice rest in a state mental hospital beats a stretch in the pen, right? Randle P. McMurphy (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 pick...

Directed By: Milos Forman

Written By: Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman, Ken Kesey, Dale Wasserman

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 20 Critic Reviews
84
90% Positive
18 Reviews
10% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 20 Critic Reviews
84
90% Positive
18 Reviews
10% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews

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100
Forman’s classic has not aged one bit. In fact, it’s become more relevant than ever, considering today’s tumultuous climate.
By Alex Saveliev FULL REVIEW
100
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is the best film therapy one can recommend.
By Kathleen Carroll FULL REVIEW

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Universal Acclaim Based on 555 User Ratings
8.7
92% Positive
511 Ratings
5% Mixed
25 Ratings
3% Negative
19 Ratings

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User Score
Universal Acclaim Based on 555 User Ratings
8.7
92% Positive
511 Ratings
5% Mixed
25 Ratings
3% Negative
19 Ratings

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RustY420
Feb 18, 2024
Give a crazy person a meaning, and watch him turn out to be a worker, a productive man for the "society". Amazing movie. Watch it with an open mind and you will see it. I love this movie. Thank You Mr. llkka Villi for telling us this movie.
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Punko
Jan 1, 2024
Great no matter where you look at it! "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" overturned our notions of normality. A movie that is in the top 10 most loved and will be remembered forever. A standard in antics, but also rocking to the core.
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100
Brilliant cinema theatre.
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88
The film remains a stunning collective of method acting and 1970s social critique.
By Glenn Heath Jr. FULL REVIEW
80
Its honest and forthright depiction of mental illness, combined with Nicholson’s tour-de-force bull in a china shop performance, mean that it has lost none of its power to provoke and entertain in the four decades since its release.
By Maximilian Von Thun FULL REVIEW
70
A comedy that can't quite support its tragic 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.
By Vincent Canby FULL REVIEW
50
One Flew over the Cuckoo 's Nest is an earnest attempt to make a serious film. But in the end the movie backs away from both the human reality and the cloudy but potent symbolism that Ken Kesey found in the asylum.
By Richard Schickel FULL REVIEW
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10
NickTheCritick
Apr 1, 2022
This is the best film by Milos Forman. Easily a masterpiece. Great direction, great Jack Nicholson. Wonderful cinematography and editing. Anyone who has not seen it should go and see it immediately and will not regret it.
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Andremax
Sep 6, 2018
Don't get this text so badly. Nicholson is simply spetacular here,one of his best acting, even the best. But the movie is so imprevisible at point to watcher wait a plot and the movie disconnect all your reasoning. In short,movie has an interesting premisse but it's pointless
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6
Spangle
Nov 16, 2013
Pretty good film. Nicholson is awesome in the lead role, but it does not make up for the rest of the film. Beautifully filmed, but the storyline is just...boring. Yes, it's dark, heartwarming, and emotional, but it feels like we're cooped up in the asylum as well and are just as bored as the people there.
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MelinaBrzeczek
Feb 20, 2020
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Sydmwswy
Jun 25, 2022
Toxic movies that I hate forever I really believe that films like this harm not only the cinema but also our world. The opening of the movie is very ridiculous. It is one of the few times that I see the Academy giving the best actor award to the worst actor. The lunatic asylum nurse is stupidly naughty . The secondary characters of the movie are very, very bad. The ending of the movie is more ridiculous than the opening, but the worst part of the movie is when a friend (Of course, it hardly even reaches the style of friend) kills him at the request of another friend. The stage design is awful. Neither realistic, nor surreal, nor minimal, nor anything, and intentionally made into a ridiculous form. None of the people in the asylum even come close to the style. There is nothing in this movie. Even relationships are artificial.
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Production Company Fantasy Films, N.V. Zvaluw
Release Date Nov 19, 1975
Duration 2 h 13 m
Rating R
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Tagline If he's crazy, what does that make you?
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Awards

Academy Awards, USA
• 5 Wins & 9 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 6 Wins & 6 Nominations
BAFTA Awards
• 6 Wins & 10 Nominations

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