Powerful Drama Dealing With "Insanity".

Rating: 9/10 (7 September 2013)

Based on Ken Kesey's novel about R.P. McMurphy,(unforgettably played by Jack Nicholson, who won an academy award) a rebellious prisoner who fakes insanity in order to avoid a work detail in prison, and is transferred to a mental asylum. He doesn't fool controlling and cold hearted head nurse Ratched(Louise Fletcher, another Academy Award winner). At first McMurphy finds the other inmates funny when they have their group therapy sessions, but after awhile, he comes to care, and even assumes a leadership role, as he inspires them to rebel as well, especially with painfully shy Billy Bibbit(Brad Dourif) who eventually loses his stutter in a key sequence near the end, only to have Ratched cruelly put him down, leading to an extreme turn of events...
Whole cast is excellent, script is highly intelligent, both uproariously funny yet also dramatically hard-hitting, with inspired direction by Milos Forman.
Ending is both tragic yet triumphant, and may haunt the viewer for years to come. Will Sampson as the silent Indian almost steals the film from Jack & Louise...