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One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest – 50th Anniversary

Friday 24 October (8.05 p.m.)and Monday 27 October,(8.10 p.m.) 2025

Presented in 4K on its 50th Anniversary, this 5-time Oscar® winner (Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Director, Screenplay) One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest follows Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), a convict who simulates mental illness in the hope that a transfer to psychiatric hospital might ensure his early release. But he hasn’t bargained for the rigid regimen of Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher, also superb), who dislikes his disruptive — though he’d say liberating — effect on the ward.

Inspired casting (Danny DeVito, Brad Dourif and Christopher Lloyd are among the patients) and a naturalistic direction lend authenticity to the proceedings, so that the film succeeds both as anti-authoritarian parable and as an affecting reminder of the psychiatric practices of the past.

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