One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Blu-ray Book Packaging)

I thought this was a movie about a bird trying to escape a mental hospital, but oh, was I wrong. Turns out, it's about a professional troublemaker who gets tossed into the loony bin and decides to turn the whole place into a summer camp. Jack Nicholson, bless his heart, acts like he's just stumbled into a surprise birthday party he didn't want to leave. He's bouncing off the walls, making bets on cards, and generally causing so much chaos that the other patients start to think they're sane just by comparison. And Nurse Ratched? She's the ultimate straight man. She just stands there, a pillar of quiet disapproval, while everything around her falls to pieces. She’s like the world’s most patient substitute teacher trying to wrangle a class full of hyperactive squirrels. The whole movie is a masterclass in controlled pandemonium, with everyone slowly losing their minds, but in the most hilarious, chaotic, and vaguely depressing way possible. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll wonder if you're the crazy one for finding it so funny.

Very good movie. Jack Nicholson was at his best! Very good acting by all stars, and funny. It’s a movie I could watch again, and again.

This is my favorite movie of alltime! Yeehah I finally bought it

Classic movie I had not watched in many years.

One of his best, could watch it over and over. If you have the chance look up "things you didn't know" about the movie on You Tube. Very interesting.

Quick fact: This movie has been preserved in the national film registry, and has been regarded as one of the best films ever made. In addition to this, this film earned all 5 Academy awards - a feat not repeated until almost 20 years after its release in 1975. Based on a novel by the same name, OFOTCK stars Jack Nicholson as Randle McMurphy: a new patient at a mental institution. If it isn't bad enough that he is committed involuntarily, he soon finds himself at the mercy of a head nurse (Louise Fletcher as'Nurse Ratched') determined to assert her authority and maintain behaviors considered to be socially acceptable. It isn't by coincidence that the location and tone throughout the film feel authentic. This film was shot inside of the Ohio State Hospital - and thus, there were inevitable interactions with patients and staff members even if only in the sense they were extras. A potentially risky decision I would suspect, but in the end this setting serves a purpose all its own: It maintains a level capriciousness and reminds the audience that anything - yeah, anything really- can happen in this territory on a whim and isn't always easily prepared for. The cast all around paid due respect to the characters and personas they portrayed, and it goes without saying that this movie attempts to dignify individuals considered to be "mentally ill" and doesn't rely on gimmicky hat tricks to get the point across about their varying conditions. In addition to this, every character has their own separate understanding of their reality, and thus develop in vastly different ways over the course of the film. This may not count for much to other people, but this is impressive when you take into consideration how many characters that accounts for (It's about 8, give or take a few) and how little the actual setting changes (both physically and metaphorically). Sans a few differences throughout the book detail wise, it has come to my attention that details regarding Chief Bromden's life before being institutionalized aren't elaborated on in the movie as they were in the book. This bring me to my main and only criticism: At no point in the movie do have a grasp on why the voluntarily patients decide to remain committed. There are moments within the movie that tiptoe around this subject, but in the end there's no clear understanding regarding the "benefits" of being in a place that seems restrictive and overbearing. The nurse at times interjects with hints about the perks of being in this environment (she says something to the effect of "The men here rely on our daily routine/schedule"), BUT I would have just liked a little bit more in this area particularly. A true classic that stands the test of time - I would recommend!

Nostalgic movie. Enjoyed it tremendously

It's difficult for one to speak of this film without gushing superlatives, but "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" has to be considered among the greatest ever American pictures. Not a hair is out of place in this fantastic adaptation of Ken Kesey's popular novel, and it's no accident that the movie won every major Academy Award for 1976. (Only two other films have swept the five major Oscars -- Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay -- "It Happened One Night" and "The Silence of the Lambs.") If you like dramas that examine human frailties and peculiarities, this movie is a must see. It will involve you with laughter, anger, dismay, angst, and elation. No cinematic work is perfect, but "Cuckoo's Nest" comes pretty darned close. Jack Nicholson is in his defining role as "Jack McMurphy"; his persona is not only ideal for the part, but his acting is absolutely splendid. Nicholson is supported by a wonderful cast that includes the painfully unforgettable performance of Louise Fletcher as "Nurse Ratched." Several then unknown actors -- Christopher Lloyd and Danny DeVito among them -- round out the troupe beautifully. The redoubtable director Milos Forman guides his band of exceptional actors through an excellent screenplay and into cinematic immortality. While this DVD's picture quality leaves much to be desired, it's somehow fitting for this film. Strangely, the documentary-like quality of the movie make the prevalent grain and foreign matter appear as though they belong! This is the only film I've yet seen that doesn't seem to lose much for want of a good print. Still, objectively speaking, Warner showed no respect to this classic by allowing such a poor copy on DVD -- and providing a mediocre transfer to boot. (No surprise, they did a TERRIBLE job with "The Stanley Kubrick Collection"; so bad that they're redoing it.) Recorded sound is merely acceptable. The "special features" may once have been something, but they aren't any longer. DVD collectors expect more nowadays, not just a few pages of text. In the end, however, this item remains a "buy"; it's relatively cheap, and it's the only available DVD version of this great movie.