One flew over the cuckoo's nest
(DVD)

DVD videorecording.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1975.

Based on the novel by Ken Kesey.

Special features: Interactive menus ; production notes ; scene access.

Director of photography, Haskell Wexler ; music by Jack Nitzsche.

Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield.

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.

MPAA rating: R.

DVD, Standard screen format on side A, widescreen format on side B.

English (surround stereo) and French (mono) language soundtracks, with optional subtitles in English, French, and Spanish ; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.