This screening includes One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Date and time:
- Mon, April 20, 2015, From 7–9:13 pm
- Runtime:
- 2 hr 13 min
- Cost:
- Free, but ticketed
Series: Mental Illness in American Film
About One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Rating:
- Year Released:
- 1975
- Genres:
- Drama
- Metadata:
40th Anniversary Screening Adapted from Ken Kesey's 1962 novel based on his experiences as night staff in a California VA hospital, the film depicts the story of a man who chooses hospitalization instead of jail. Jack Nicholson plays the anti-hero and Louise Fletcher the tyrannical psychiatric nurse who battle issues of power and agency, fueling critiques of the “myth” of mental illness and “asylum” care as a failed social experiment. The film swept the Oscars © (Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Actor, and Best Actress), and is widely considered, along with the book, to help create the Community Mental Health Movement. (2K DCP presentation)