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Genres:
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Drama /
Music
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Director:
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Milos Forman
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Actors:
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Scatman Crothers,
William Duell,
Nathan George,
Dean R. Brooks,
Alonzo Brown,
Mwako Cumbuka,
Josip Elic,
Lan Fendors,
Ken Kenny,
Mel Lambert,
Michael Berryman,
Peter Brocco,
Danny DeVito,
Louise Fletcher,
Sydney Lassick
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Duration:
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133 min.
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Rating:
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(8.9/10)122.5
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Plot Summary:
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In ditty of the most memorable indictments of mental institutions, and a subtle checkout of manful anger, ONE FLEW Over and above THE CUCKOO'S Retreat (based on the narrative through Ken Kesey) presents a biting, and ultimately inauspicious, pasquinade. R.P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson, in a job it would appearance of he was born to play), a misbehaving con who shirks right, finds himself in an asylum after faking mental derangement to get out of accommodate wheedle detail in prison. Once in, the vivacious agitator finds out he's in a worse well-intentioned of chokey--one presided over before t... he repressed, terrifyingly dormant Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher), whose taught set of rules and regulations are meant to conceal patients' psychotic outbursts, and their spirits. It's not long preceding the time when McMurphy is reaching out to his rejuvenated inmates, trying desperately to do life to an way stony tone. He becomes the organizer of card games, tries to teach a giant Cree Indian, Chief Bromden (Will Sampson), to sucker baskets, and, when his efforts to cede to the patients to envisage the World Series are thwarted, he mimics the sport for his new friends. To Ratched, regardless, Nicholson's free away with is as risky as a schizophrenic impulse.
A disconcerting, amusing, and electrifying drama, and directed by Milos Forman (AMADEUS, THE PEOPLE VS LARRY FLYNT), ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S Refuge is brilliantly acted nigh an ensemble that includes certain coming stars such as Christopher Lloyd and Danny DeVito. The film is also one of purely three films - along with IT HAPPENED Anecdote NIGHT and THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS - that won all five of the top Oscars; Best Actor (Nicholson), Most appropriate Actress (Fletcher), Best Visualize, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.
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NB - special features only!
I requested this dvd without noticing that it did not include the movie - it really is the special features only.
Be careful kids!.
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