Archive for January, 1975
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
McMurphy, a man with several assault convictions to his name, finds himself in jail once again. This time, the charge is statutory rape when it turns out that his girlfriend had lied about being eighteen, and was, in fact, fifteen (or, as McMurphy puts it, “fifteen going on thirty-five”). Rather than spend his time in jail, he convinces the guards that he’s crazy enough to need psychiatric care and is sent to a hospital. He fits in frighteningly well, and his different point of view actually begins to cause some of the patients to progress. Nurse Ratched becomes his personal cross to bear as his resistance to the hospital routine gets on her nerves.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 8.80 out of 10 (81467 votes)
Director: Milos Forman
Actors: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco, Dean R. Brooks, Alonzo Brown, Scatman Crothers, Mwako Cumbuka, Danny DeVito, William Duell, Josip Elic, Lan Fendors,
Tags: Drama, 1960s, attempted-murder, authority, based-on-novel, basketball, black-comedy, blackjack-game, blockbuster, boat-theft, brawl, bus, bus-theft, cheating, chewing-gum, christmas-tree, cigarette, convict, cult-favorite, dancing, deaf-mute, drunk-scene, electric-shock-therapy, electroconvulsive-therapy, epilepsy, escape, escaped-mental-patient, euthanasia, fake-illness, fishing, fishing-boat, freedom, group-therapy, helicopter, hysteria, independent-film, individuality, insanity, institutional-life, lobotomy, male-nudity, marina, masturbation-reference, medical, medication, mental-illness, mental-institution, mental-patient, mental-retardation, monopoly-game, native-american, nurse, oregon, party, patient-rights, pinochle-game, playing-card, premarital-sex, psychiatric-examination, psychiatric-hospital, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, restraint, small-town, sociopath, strangulation, stuttering, suffocation, suicide, swimming-pool, television, tragic-ending, voting, vulgarity, wheelchair, world-series
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Three Days of the Condor
A mild mannered CIA researcher, paid to read books, returns from lunch to find all of his co-workers assassinated. “Condor” must find out who did this and get in from the cold before the hitmen get him.
Three Days of the Condor DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.40 out of 10 (5689 votes)
Director: Sydney Pollack
Actors: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow, John Houseman, Addison Powell, Walter McGinn, Tina Chen, Michael Kane, Don McHenry, Michael B. Miller, Jess Osuna, Dino Narizzano, Helen Stenborg, Patrick Gorman,
Tags: Thriller, based-on-novel, book, cia, computer-cracker, espionage, fugitive, hitman, intelligence-analyst, murder, new-york-city, political, spy
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