This movie has received a Golden Globe nomination and a Screen Actors Guild nomination in the "Made-for-TV" category, even though it was not actually made for television. It was released to theaters abroad before premiering on HBO in the U.S. (The end credits feature a "Dolby Stereo in Selected Theaters" credit.)
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According to Michael Douglas, Milos Forman had his heart set on Burt Reynolds to play the part of McMurphy. Reynolds wanted to do it after meeting with Forman, but the studio wanted a more critically acclaimed actor for the role, and chose Jack Nicholson.
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The play opened on Broadway, in New York City, on November 13, 1963, and closed on January 25, 1964, after eighty-two performances. The opening night cast included Kirk Douglas as R.P. McMurphy, William Daniels as Dale Harding, and Gene Wilder as Billy Bibbit.
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Features the only Oscar nominated performances of Louise Fletcher (for which she won Best Actress) and Brad Dourif.
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All of the actors who played patients actually lived in the Oregon State Hospital psychiatric ward throughout production. The men personalized their sleeping quarters, spent their days on campus to "get a sense of what it was to be hospitalized" (as Vincent Schiavelli put it), and interacting with real psychiatric patients.
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This movie featured a Star Trek movie villain. Christopher Lloyd played Klingon Commander Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984).
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Emotionally strained by a demanding shooting schedule that kept him three thousand miles from his future wife, Rhea Perlman, Danny DeVito developed the coping mechanism of an imaginary friend, with whom he would have nightly chats. Concerned that his own sanity might be slipping away, DeVito sought the advice of Dr. Brooks, who assured him that there was no reason to worry, as long as DeVito could still identify the character as fictional.
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A portion of the original NBC Radio broadcast of Game 2 of the 1963 World Series was used for the scene where the orderlies are listening to the game on the radio. Hall of Fame baseball announcer Ernie Harwell can be heard on the broadcast.
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Vincent Schiavelli recalled, "You had to be, in this movie, who you would be, if you were insane."
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Anjelica Huston and Christopher Lloyd both appear together in The Addams Family (1991) and it's 1993 sequel Addams Family Values .
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During the electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) scene, McMurphy says "a little dab will do ya" as the nurse is putting conductor gel on the side of his head. This phrase, not in the original script, is a reference to the advertising jingle of Brylcreem hair cream, which was a popular hair care product for men in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Favorite film of Ron Howard.
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Louise Fletcher only realized that the part of Nurse Ratched was a hotly contested role among all the leading actresses of the day when a reporter visiting the set happened to casually mention it.
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In later interviews, Louise Fletcher said that she found ways to make her character human, yet remain unsympathetic, ultimately deciding that Nurse Ratched actually did care about the patients, and felt she was doing what was best for them, but was ultimately misguided and drunk on her own power.
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The film was the third-highest-grossing film released in 1975 in the United States and Canada with a gross of $109 million,[1] being UA's biggest hit.
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Danny DeVito reprised his performance from a 1971 off-Broadway revival.
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Director of photography Haskell Wexler worked thirty-one days on the film. His replacement, Bill Butler, worked thirty days, and then had to leave to work on another project. That left the door open for William A. Fraker to come on board and work uncredited on the boat sequence.
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Despite trashing the hospital, the production only had to pay $250 a day to shoot there.
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The film cast includes four Oscar winners: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Anjelica Huston, and Saul Zaentz; and two Oscar nominees: Danny DeVito and Brad Dourif.
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Jack Nitzsche was chosen as composer at the suggestion of Art Garfunkel.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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