One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest Reviews and Ratings



  • July 24, 2009
    All we need's one vote. Just one vote. Just your one vote. (...) Chief! The Chief! *WOOOOOO* Chief! Nurse Ratched? Nurse Ratched. Look! Look! The Chief put his hand up. The Chief put his hand up. Look. he voted, Would you please turn the television set on?
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  • July 23, 2009
    I want to see it again.
  • July 21, 2009
    I'm a dork and actually read the play version of this story first, then stumbled upon the movie, but I think both are incredible. Incredibly moving, incredibly rememberable, incredibly everything.
  • July 16, 2009
    Seen on 7/14/2009

    Shawn's comments - Great performances all around. One of the best endings of any film.

    Katie's comments - A good movie albeit a bit dated in terms of pacing and dialogue/story. Jack Nicholson plays himself in a mental institution but is supported by a wonderf...( read more)ully rich and heart wrenching cast of characters. Definitely want to read the book. I never thought I'd root for someone to break a window so much.
  • July 10, 2009
    One of the best movie ever made ! ! !
  • July 10, 2009
    Loved this film. Jack Nicholson is amazing in it. Shouldn't have put off watching this for so many years!
  • July 9, 2009
    There are no obvious (or even minuscule) flaws in Cuckoo's Nest, the film is full of great moments (prepare to watch Randall work the floor for votes to watch a World Series game several times) but be prepared for a break from the standard Hollywood offerings. One Flew Over the C...( read more)uckoo's Nest manages to be very depressing and uplifting at the same time. If you have a soul, you'll both laugh and feel your throat tighten. If you read a synopsis of the movie you'll think it is nothing special, just Jack chewing the scenery, but if you take the time to watch the movie you'll realize you're looking at a cinema classic.
  • July 2, 2009
    Chief you had them all fooled! you ... *Classic*
  • July 1, 2009
    Gotta love Jack in this movie, He's a wonderful actor!
  • July 1, 2009
    All time Classic after Godfather.I would rank this movie along with likes of Citizen Kane and All Quiet on The Western Front. Truly amazing direction of Milos Foreman( My personal favorite Director)
  • June 29, 2009
    Average films. Don't really see what all the fuss is about.
  • June 28, 2009
    A very good movie with superb acting but, I found the ending to be trite and pointless.
  • June 26, 2009
    Electroshock therapy freaks me the hell out.
  • June 26, 2009
    JACK AT HIS FINEST...
  • June 24, 2009
    I just didn't care about this film.
  • June 23, 2009
    I dont know about you but i couldnt find anything bad in "One flew over the cuckoo's nest".Is that make it perfecto?no if you ask me.But almost perfect.I said to myself before i watched:If i like this movie,i will add Milos Forman to my favourite directors.Cause he directed my fa...( read more)vourite movie,Hair.But still i cant decide.Because i cant find anything different in his directing.I love his movies:Amadeus,Hair and this one...But their script makes them great movies.Only cause that i didnt give this 5 stars is the Camera.Camera could be different.I didnt say better.I said different.?f we could mix Mike Nichols and Milos Forman,we would have the greatest director in the world.But lets talk about acting too.
    Oscar is deserved by Jack Nicholson.But i didnt understand about Louise Fletcher.But she cant be better at that role.And other than leadings i loved all the supporting roles' acting.Danny Devito,Brad Dourif and Chewski (dont know his real name) was really good.
    Anyway we dont have make this longer.surprising finale,great acting and script.It is an almost perfect movie.But absolutely a must watch for everyone.
  • June 20, 2009
    Watched it a loooonnngg time ago
  • June 19, 2009
    I always thought Jack Nicholson was mental!!
  • June 17, 2009
    i don't remember if i've seen it
  • June 16, 2009
    This movie has been sitting on my desk for the past 5 months.Forgive me, ive been waiting for the right opportunity to watch it and finally i have done just that.What can i say,i now know why this movie has been critically acclaimed and has been homaged so many times.Jack plays t...( read more)he loveable RP Murphy,the criminal lowlife sent to a mental institution in order to avoid time in the big pen.Along the way he meets an aray of troubled characters as he tries and liberates them from the oppressive Nurse Ratched.Every character is developed along the way which is this movies strongest trait.Excellent preformances although the plot gets a little tedius around the halfway mark which is then rescued just in time.Plus the end is probably the most fitting end in any movie ive ever seen.
  • June 14, 2009
    I liked this movie alot. But, I did not like the ending.
  • June 13, 2009
    Jack Nicholson si es McMurphy
  • June 12, 2009
    Five stars, really good, nicholson at his best again.
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    McMurphy: What do you think you are for Christ sake, crazy or somethin'? Well you're not! You're not! You're no crazier than the average asshole out walkin' around on the streets and thats it.
  • June 10, 2009
    A new and rebellious patient is brought to a small mental institution where his antics endear the other patients to him and incur the wrath of the stern and repressive nurse who runs their ward.
  • June 8, 2009
    O! I to jest prawdziwy, sensowny, dobrze zrobiony madry klasyk.
  • June 7, 2009
    Depressing, confusing, funny, thought-provoking, and definitely touching.
  • June 7, 2009
    Im pretty sure iv seen this before and i think i liked it lol but im not sure
  • June 6, 2009
    A new and rebellous partend is brought to a small mental instution where his antics endear the otehr patients to him and incur the wrath of the stern and repressive nurse who runs their ward
  • June 5, 2009
    I loved this movie but it made me cry so much! I love the story between Jack Nicholson's character and the Cheif!
  • June 4, 2009
    i love this movie and my fav actor
  • June 4, 2009
    Wonderful!!!
    Fantastic acting by Jack Nicholson and other actors & actress.
    Brilliant story, absolutely classic!!!
  • June 1, 2009
    no matter how crazy u think u r, interactions wit ppl still matter..
  • May 26, 2009
    Oscars went to Nicholson, Louise Fletcher as castrating Nurse Ratched, producer Michael Douglas and Milos Forman's unblinking direction. Cuckoo spent 14 years in development limbo but remains the most radical film to emerge from mainstream Hollywood. Too many classic set pieces t...( read more)o mention but keep your ears cocked for that immortal line "Mmmm, Juicy Fruit." Certified brilliance.
  • May 25, 2009
    Lobotomy for Jack...Well, at least the one dude got away
  • May 24, 2009
    REDEMPTION COMES IN DIFFERENT WAYS.
  • May 23, 2009
    need to see this again for a more accurate rating.
  • May 23, 2009
    JACK NICHOLSON was fucking amazing probably one of his finest works, the end was BEAT.
  • May 23, 2009
    Come on it's Jack, you cannot live a life without seeing this film! He is AMAZING! Jacks relationship with 'Chief' is funny and exciting, and 'Chief's loyalty towards him was emotional and beloved.
  • May 22, 2009
    it was a very funny movie.
  • May 17, 2009
    Probably one of the best films ever made. Low budget no names. Nicholson is at his best. Screen writers first screenplay! Unreal!
  • May 17, 2009
    "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" presents the idea that madness is really sanity -- or "Much madness is divinest sense, to a discerning eye," as Emily Dickinson would put it. Is it that society fears the ideas and practices of the "insane" so we inhibit them from their true pote...( read more)ntial by locking them away in these asylums? Have we been so consumed by the desire to control that we must lock them away? "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" shouts these questions. And the most compelling aspect is the personification of society and control -- the vivid Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher, in her most legendary performance). Nurse Ratched stares through the camera and breaks the barrier of screen, frightening the viewer as to what corruption power causes. Ratched is doubly frightening as Hannibal Lecter, and triple as frightening as Darth Vader. Who would have though a little nurse could be so intimidating? And the best part is that it is completley believable. Fletcher challenges us to hate her, and when I first watched the film I did -- but then I loved her. How Fletcher creates such a monster, so deliciously sinister and cold. Absolutely breathtaking.
  • May 17, 2009
    Well, Now This Is A Classic! Jack Nicholson Won Best Actor For This!!
  • May 16, 2009
    One of my best.. Perfect caste and superb performance that earned the Oscar award. A must see movie definitely...

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