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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (2 Disc Special Edition) [1975] [DVD]
enlarge	Director: Milos Forman Actors: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco, Dean R. Brooks Studio: Warner Home Video Category: DVD List Price: ~~£13.99~~ Buy Used: £2.85 as of 25/11/2009 02:28 GMT details You Save: £11.14 (80%) New (13) Used (19) Collectible (2) from £2.85 Seller: mattrhiamzon Rating: 49 reviews Sales Rank: 1483 Format: PAL, Special Edition Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Region: 2 Discs: 2 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 128 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 7321900374637 ASIN: B00006JI31 Theatrical Release Date: March 1, 1976 Release Date: October 14, 2002 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review One of the key movies of the 1970s, when exciting, groundbreaking, personal films were still being made in Hollywood, Milos Forman's iOne Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest/i emphasised 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, iOne Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest/i 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 iIt Happened One Night/i in 1931. i--Jim Emerson/i Amazon.co.uk Review A big Oscar winner in 1975, IOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest/I still holds up remarkably well. Ken Kesey's novel, an allegory of repression and rebellion set in a mental hospital in the early 1960s, is cannily adapted by Czech director Milos Forman into a comedy drama with a cool, unassuming, near-documentary look. Jack Nicholson has his most jacknicholsonian role as Randle P McMurphy, a livewire troublemaker who unwisely cons his way out of prison and into a mental institution without realising he has switched from serving a sentence with a release date to being committed until adjudged sane by the same people he is winding up on a daily basis. Louise Fletcher, in a career-defining turn, is Nurse Ratched, the soft-spoken sadist who represents the worst type of matronly authoritarianism and clashes with Randle all down the line. p Taking another look at the picture after all these years, it's a surprise that all the unknown actors who seemed like real mental patients have graduated to becoming prolific character actor stars: Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, Vincent Schiavelli, Brad Dourif, the late Will Sampson, Sidney Lassick, Michael Berryman. Unlike many Best Picture Oscar winners, this deals with profound subject matter without seeming self-important: Forman's approach and all-round great acting make it play as a small character story as well as a Big Statement about the human condition. Full marks also for Jack Nitzsche's musical saw-based score. p BOn the DVD:/B IOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest/I comes to DVD in a two-disc special edition with a great-looking anamorphic 1.85:1 print and 5.1 Dolby Digital soundtrack, plus tracks in French and Italian and optional subtitles in half a dozen languages. Disc 2 has the trailer, about 13 minutes of deleted scenes (mostly from the first third of the film, and all pretty good) and a making-of retrospective documentary with interesting material from producers Michael Douglas (who inherited the rights from Kirk) and Saul Zaentz, Forman, screenwriter Bo Goldman and many cast-members (though not Nicholson). There's also a commentary track by Forman, Douglas and others which repeats a few things from the documentary but also goes into more scene-specific detail about the development and shooting. --IKim Newman/I

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 49 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...10 Next » BAD HAIR, GREAT FILM February 9, 2004 DAVID BRYSON (Glossop Derbyshire England) 32 out of 32 found this review helpful It has taken me nearly 30 years to get round to watching this film, and I genuinely think I appreciate it more for being that much older. It has had accolades for everything -- plot, direction, filming, casting, acting. It deserves them all. It is nothing short of compulsive. The bad guy who has not lost his soul (much less his spirit) is pitted against the embodiment of sanctimonious righteousness who never had a soul to lose. brI wonder whether Nicholson has even yet had full recognition for the truly great actor he is (how many people have even seen The King of Marvin Gardens, for instance?) His screen presence is enormous, magnetic and menacing. He combines outsize testosteronic individuality with the ability to get inside a character, and an electric sense of threat with a real power to tug at the heart-strings. Bad he may be, but unsympathetic never. He is a very big little guy, but he is still the little guy against the system. It must be impossible, surely, to upstage that? pIncredibly, no. The ultimate star in a film that has no shortage of up-and-coming luminaries as well as Nicholson (D de Vito for one) is Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched. I am never going to forget that mask-like expressionless face and that ever-rational, implacable, ever-modulated voice mouthing those soulless, uncomprehending, the-system-is-right banalities. Above all, I am never going to forget that hair. Among the many touches of genius in this production, that hairstyle is the ultimate. I simply could not take my eyes off it. The name is effective too, and I shall continue to believe until someone proves me wrong that it was an inspired borrowing from Jane Eyre -- the dreadful and sadistic Miss Skatcherd brought up to date and given a 20th-century twist.pThis film is never going to become dated as long as these polarities continue to repel each other. I saw it at all only because my son showed it to me. It is relevant to my generation, it is relevant to his, and I can't foresee when it is not going to be relevant. a masterpiece March 4, 2003 dragondrums (Ingleby Barwick, United Kingdom) 36 out of 37 found this review helpful Having read the book by Ken Kesey I would have thought it was too complex and difficut a task to make a film that did this story justice.brHowever Milos Foreman has achived a beautifully crafted adaptation of this text. The casting was superb and there isn't one actor or character that 'jars'. Jack Nicholson is the embodiment of Randall P McMurphy and richly deserved his oscar.brLouise Fletcher is perfect as the sadistic and controlling Nurse Ratched and again, is a worthy academy winner.brThis film has humour and pathos and you will find your emotions veering between rage (at the system), pity and empathy whilst laughing aloud at some of the antics of the inmates being led by an anarchic McMurphy.brThe ending is both tragic yet exhilarating. This is an essential film in the collection of any movie lover. On the 7th day God created One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest!! December 28, 2000 Andrew Charlan (Oldham, England) 26 out of 27 found this review helpful I bought this DVD from Amazon a few weeks ago as a Christmas present to myself. I had heard rumours about it and seen the book on various shop shelves. I knew that I had to see this film as everyone kept saying to me I can't believe you've not seen it, it's a classic. Well I finally sat down to watch it on Christmas night and was left absolutely speechless at how very, very good it is. I honestly can't sing this films praises enough. All the cast deliver outstanding performances in particular, Fletcher, Nicholson, Dourif, DeVito and Lloyd. I am not going to give anything away about the plot all I will say is I can't believe you've not seen it, it's a classic. Buy this film now! It's Perfect July 30, 2005 Paul Johnson 10 out of 10 found this review helpful If all films were the same quality as One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, no work would ever get done as we would all constantly be watching films. It is impossible to stress just how impressive this movie is. The book by Ken Kesey is brilliant in it's own right, but I believe the film is far better than the book. Tragically the author of the book refuses to ever watch the film, bitter about the way they scripted it, but that is his loss.pIn the film, Jack Nicholson plays Randall McMurphy, a convict who (we believe) fakes being mentally defective in order to get out of prison. We are intorduced to various people in the institution he is sent to, the most notable of whom is Nurse Ratched incredibly well played by Louise Fletcher, thouogh also the other patients.pMcMurphy manages to turn the ward he is sent to on it's head providing a level of hope and enthusiasm to the ward that is not typically possible under Ratched's iron rule. Ratched in turn does not like her rule being questioned and fights back fiercely leading to conflict between her and McMurphy. This is the central part of the film and both actors work incredibly well together. The film ends in tragedy when McMurphy having gone too far ends up trying to kill Ratched and ends up being turned into a vegetable through electric shock treatment. It is not all bad news though as the Chief, who is the narrator in the book, takes inspiration from McMurphy to escape.pThe supporting cast are incredible with Danny DeVito being the best, though Christopher Lloyd, later recognised for his work in Back to the Future, puts in a strong turn and Brad Dourif as Billy Bibbit is something special as well.pThis film won a host of awards when it was released, most notably best picture, best director, best actor and best actress at the Oscars and it is really deserved. I could go on for hours about the quality of this film and never convey just how amazing it is.pBuy it - you will not regret it. Amazing. If you haven#x27;t got it, get it. January 22, 2006 8 out of 8 found this review helpful I#x27;m not normally moved enough by a film to post my comments on Amazon, but last night this one just blew me away. I can#x27;t believe I hadn#x27;t seen it before now. All I can say is that everything everybody before me has said is right. It#x27;s a moving, shocking, scary, often laugh-out-loud funny emotional rollercoaster with some the greatest performances I#x27;ve ever seen. I was completely bowled over and it took me about 10 minutes to recover from what I#x27;d just seen.pWhat an unbelievably brilliant piece of work. Showing reviews 1-5 of 49 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...10 Next »

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