One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is an iconic and timeless film, especially with its lead actor Jack Nicholson.

His career took off in the 1970s and now he is in the record books and film cinema history. In between his Broadway career and transition to TV, he served in the He was stationed at the Van Nuys Airport for reserve duties and was activated for several months to support the Berlin Crisis of 1961. He is the most nominated male actor for the Academy Awards with 12 nominations. He served in the U.S. He financed films from the profits of his work and the success of Creedence Clearwater Revival. Post his success with the film he created his own production company and continued his work in the industry well into the 2000s. His is from Muscogee heritage, a people from the Southeastern Woodlands. We are glad he made it back and graced the silver screen with such a memorable character as Dale Harding. Saul Zaentz served as a producer on the film and won one of his three Academy Awards for Best Picture with the film. He served in WWII in the U.S. The other winners for Zaentz as a producer are Amadeus and The English Patient.

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It's a startlingly well-made and well-written film that still works wonderfully as a historical artefact. But as entertainment? Not so much.

Angeline Jolie stars as a forest fire-fighter – and somehow that works just fine. It's a decent film of an exceptionally inspiring event. Watson published a memoir – True Spirit – and a documentary, narrated by Sir Richard Branson, who seems like an odd choice, is also available. There was a layer of self-aware social satire in Ken Kesey's source novel, that the screenplay for the film chooses to ignore – or rewrite. But it also plays like a misanthropic apology for a man convicted of statutory rape, to play the hero in front of his friends. Nicholson lays down some of the foundations of his career here.

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