Bluemoon's Official Top 100 Films

BlueHammer85 said:
13. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 8/100

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American drama film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. The film stars Jack Nicholson as Randle McMurphy, a new patient at a mental institution, and features a supporting cast of Louise Fletcher, Brad Dourif, Will Sampson, Sydney Lassick, William Redfield, Danny DeVito, and Christopher Lloyd in his film debut.

Filming began in January 1975 and lasted three months, taking place on location in Salem, Oregon, and the surrounding area, as well as on the Oregon coast. The producers decided to shoot the film in the Oregon State Hospital, an actual mental hospital, as this was also the setting of the novel.

Considered by many to be one of the greatest films ever made, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is No. 33 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years... 100 Movies list. The film was the second to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Actor in Lead Role, Actress in Lead Role, Director, and Screenplay) following It Happened One Night in 1934, an accomplishment not repeated until 1991 with The Silence of the Lambs. It also won numerous Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards. In 1993, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress, and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
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Strangely, I didn’t have a Jack Nicholson film in my top 20. Chinatown came close but I completely forgot about OFOTCN.

As much as I love The Shining, Jack Torrance is a much more sympathetic character in the book.
 
OB1 said:
Yeah, I wanted to watch OUATITW but not there. I think you can get that for £2 on Amazon but I pay enough for TV subs that I'm loathe to cough up more; saving up for when City are PPV ;-(
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Its on my Netflix, mate but guess mine could be a bit different as I'm in Spain.
 
OB1 said:
Could be why; will certainly double check. Actually triple, as my daughter Googled it when my Netflix search failed.
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Funnily enough, it was only added in the last week or so. I think I noticed it the same day I read about it on here!
 
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Amazon Prime has a lot of good movies on it.
Four just outside my top twenty.
Once upon a time in America
The General.
LA Confidential.
Four Lions.
 
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