Rating of
3.5/4
Get out of my way son, you're usin' my oxygen.
TheWolf - wrote on 12/27/07
t's a film that will influence anybody deeply till the rest of their life. Every scene is so alive and so natural and you get carried away by the acting. You almost feel like you are one of the characters, or you want to be one of them at least...because they're having so much fun in their roles and they're putting so much enthusiasm at every moment. It's not like they are acting, they literally are living in that mental institution!! Jack Nicholson's best movie in my opinion and he shines throughout the movie. He plays the role with his flesh and mind and soul(with everything he got), he made every effort to help this movie stay a masterpiece forever. In other words, every time you watch the movie, it gets better and better, you start to appreciate the details of the film more.
One of the lesser known facts about this film is that it was originally a well known stage play and the part of Randall McMurphy was played by Kirk Douglas. His son Michael bought the rights to the play to turn it into a film, but he thought his father was too old to play McMuphy, so he offered the part to James Caan who turned it down. The part was then offered to Nicholson who also turned it down, but luckily for us changed his mind a couple months later.
