"Funny, moving, shocking. Cuckoo's Nest is a masterpiece"

Rating: 9/10 (13 January 2006)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Number 1 - 1975
Top 10 - 1970s
Top 100 - All Time
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of the greatest films of all time. Jack Nicholson is perfect as Randle Patrick McMurphy, an insane yet sane person, who brings trouble, friendship and a revolutionary character, upon his arrival in a mental institution. A film about the demoralising effects of institutionalisation, the stickiness of psychodiagnostic labels, and the eternal question; where is the line between sanity and insanity.
Nicholson's performance is amazing. He may be playing an extension of his actual behaviour, it doesn't matter, this is a groundbreaking, powerful and unsettling performance.
Winner of 5 Academy Awards- Including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress.
If he's crazy, what does that make you ?
One of the best films ever made. Cinema at its very best.
9.4/10