This is damn near as good as it gets. Prime-period Jack Nicholson is RP McMurphy, an anti-establishment rabble-rouser seconded to the sterile mental hospital of the demonic Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher). Cast, direction, score, look - - perfect, perfect, perfect, perfect.
DVD Extras:
Interviews with director Milos Forman and producers Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz are expertly patched together for the fact-full commentary. Eight deleted scenes must've been hard to snip, and the Making Of reveals that the cast were virtually institutionalised for the shoot, real-life doctors and patients participated and Douglas had serious worries about the sanity of some of his actors. A top package denied greatness by one thing: there's Jack all from Nicholson.
