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When free-spirited petty crook Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) arrives at the state mental hospital, his contagious sense of disorder jolts the routine. Soon he's on one side of a brewing war; soft spoken, coolly monstrous Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) is on the other. At stake is the fate of every patient on the ward...
Milos Forman's electrifying adaptation of Ken Kesey's acclaimed best seller swept all five major 1975 Academy Awards: Best Picture (produced by Saul Zaentz and Michael Douglas), Actor (Nicholson), Actress (Fletcher), Director (Milos Forman) and Adapted Screenplay (Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman). Raucou
When free-spirited petty crook Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) arrives at the state mental hospital, his contagious sense of disorder jolts the routine. Soon he's on one side of a brewing war; soft spoken, coolly monstrous Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) is on the other. At stake is the fate of every patient on the ward...
Milos Forman's electrifying adaptation of Ken Kesey's acclaimed best seller swept all five major 1975 Academy Awards: Best Picture (produced by Saul Zaentz and Michael Douglas), Actor (Nicholson), Actress (Fletcher), Director (Milos Forman) and Adapted Screenplay (Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman). Raucous, moving and with a superb cast that includes Brad Dourif, Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd in his film debut, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest simply soars.
Special Features:
* Commentary by director Milos Forman, producers Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz
* New Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio
* Widescreen format [16x9 1.85:1]
* The Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, a 48-minute documentary featuring the actors, moviemakers and writer Ken Kesey recounting the history of the original novel to its stage and movie adaptations
* Eight additional scenes
* Theatrical trailer
* Cast/crew film highlights
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Manufacturer: Warner Bros.
Release date: 23 October 2002
Number of discs: 2
Tags: Mental Illness (2), AFI Top 50 Villains (1), Psychopath (1), Dramas (1), Psychodrama (1), Character Study (1), Lobotomy (1), AFI Top 100 (1), Essential Cinema (1), AFI Top 100 (1997) (1), Madness (1), Prison/Prisoners (1), Electroshock Therapy (1), Michael Berryman (1), Patients (1), Scatman Crothers (1), Louise Fletcher (1), Knit Cap (1), 1975 (1)
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