Who's the one that's nuts?

Rating: 10/10 (30 August 2000)

McMurphey has to be Jack's quintessential role. A good hearted, yet unbreakable spirit who shows his fellow psychiatric ward occupants that they should not be treated like inmates. Louise Fletcher's brilliantly cold performance as Nurse Ratched engages Nickelson's tragic hero head to head, lending us a memorable battle of determination. Neither will budge in their iron wills. The result is a stunning film, both, emotionally engaging and socially disturbing.