Nothing else comes close!

Rating: 10/10 (7 September 2004)

This is in my opinion the greatest American Movie of all time (be it directed by an Eastern European and produced by a second generation Eastern European/American.
It has everything I personally look for in a film. The acting is so convincing that if you didn't know otherwise you'd swear it was real. The script and ad-lib are fantastic. It's intriguing, humorous, emotionally charged, heartbreaking and politically biting all at the same time.
Foreman, Douglas, Nicholson, DeVito, Lloyd and co will never (ever) top this or even get near it if they live to be a hundred.
I hold this movie responsible for my failure to pass the Biology, Chemistry and Physics exams of my final year of School. The night before the papers, I was so engrossed in this movie I stayed awake until 2am and could not get back to sleep after.
I know Jack Nicholson could play the standard non-conformist in his sleep but "One Flew Over The Cookoo's Nest" is the closest Hollywood has come to genius. It should be shown to anyone having a hard time fitting in, feeling a bit different, getting force-fed useless crap from teachers, bored in a tedious working environment, dominated by parents or pushed around by work management. If you watch it and absorb it it will bring out the MacMurphy in all of you.
A total timeless classic because it was relevant when it was made (five years before I was born), it is relevant today and it will still be relevant after I am firmly in the ground.