For me, it doesn't age well.

Rating: 6/10 (13 January 2019)

I am a huge fan of Milos and Jack, and this supporting cast (Dourif, Devito, etc) is amazing, but based on my personal experience in the medical field and dealing with people with mental illness, I don't think the portrayals were very authentic or believable. I think the movie also trivializes the severity of mental illness that leads the people to be institutionalized in the first place as well. I think Ratched is a rather unfair stereotype of the seemingly joyless, sensible shoes, marmish, rigid, head nurse who is portrayed to be a straight up villain on a petty power trip. Chaos = good, order = bad: this is all just sloppy anti-establishment fluff.
And the idea that the institutionalized mentally ill just need a field trip, booze, and hookers to enrich their lives is insulting.
Then the final plot point where Randle gets lobotomized for daring to bring booze and girls in and defy Nurse Ratched, defies all credibility.
I think the movie does a real disservice to the mentally ill as well as the psychiatric field in general. If I had watched this as a child I would have gotten a really distorted perception of many important topics, and this misinformedsimplistic mindset is something I see from many ignorant well intentioned people when they comment about institutions, skilled care, etc.