| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 
 enlarge | Director: Milos Forman
Actors: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  306 reviews
Sales Rank: 1081
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 134
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 2
Picture Format: Array
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.6 x 0.4
MPN: 085393622220
ISBN: 0790732181
UPC: 085393622220
EAN: 9780790732183
ASIN: 0790732181
Theatrical Release Date: 1975
Release Date: December 17, 1997
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Product Description
Story of a free-spirit and his adventures in a mental ward. Nicholson stars as the rebellious McMurphy who battles Nurse Ratched (Fletcher) and the institution.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 16-MAY-2006
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com essential video
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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 Greast role ever! October 10, 2008
Somehow i missed seeing this movie until now. I know shame on me. Well I was totally blown away with this film and seeing the actors in their early years was such a treat!
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 4 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!
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