You girls have won my heart with this reaction. This is my all-time favorite film, and your reaction is the most thoughtful, perceptive, respectful i have seen yet. I'm so impressed with you both for genuinely "getting it". I think you read all the characters exactly the way the author had intended for them to be seen. You are really fine souls.

Nurse Ratched is usually voted amongst the greatest film villains of all time. This is based on a book of the same name by Ken Kesey who worked as an orderly in a mental hospital. I believe a lot of the characters/events are based on people and things he witnessed

The movie was directed by Czech-origined Miloš Forman. He basically metaphorized communist totality in this movie, and he personfied it by Nurse Ratched. The last scene is a metaphor for breaking through the Iron curtain and setting yourself free. He experienced the real cuckoo's nest in communist Czechoslovakia, so he knew what the story was about.

8:07 I like how the Chief is silently observing Murphy's attempt. Figuring that he could probably lift it when the time is right, but saying nothing.

This poor beautiful creature always cries during the same moments the films affect me. What a sensitive and kind soul 💝

45:38 "No I'm not [ashamed]" -- He didn't even stammer or look away. It kills me that he has this one moment of wellness, and then completely regresses.

Poor Billy, he's found passion once again in his life. He loves the girl. But he is not good at expressing himself. Nurse Ratched made him feel guilty.

If you both didn’t notice, the young patient is played by Brad Dourif who played Wormtongue in Lord of the Rings

It's rather shocking to think that such hospital institutions persisted in reality (and in many places, not just the US) all the way well into the 1970s; but Nicholson's journey through the film brings it all, brilliantly, disturbingly and so movingly, to life.

Louise Fletcher, who played Nurse Ratched, recently passed away in September 2022. 🥀

You’ve entered the big leagues now, ladies! One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is simply one of the all time greatest movies, period. I’ve only ever seen it once and that left a lasting impression on me. Simply powerful story and acting from the entire cast & boy what a cast: Jack Nicholson (McMurphy) & Louise Fletcher (Miss Ratched) both won Oscars for their performances here but even the supporting cast were brilliant too. Some familiar faces started here too: Danny De Vito (Martini), Christopher Lloyd (Taber), Brad Dourif (Billy) all got their major breaks from this movie & have become superstars in their own right. Definitely need to get Michelle and Viki to watch this; they’ll definitely love it & cry about it (at least Viki will lol).

Poor Ellie at the end! That’s why I love her in these reactions!

This film put Michael Douglas on the film map (first here as a producer). Then another young Michael Douglas had to change his name to Michael *Keaton*

This is my all-time favorite movie. I can't count how many times I've seen it. Love this movie. The biggest battle of wills ever.

One of the movies which is perfect. Amazing Cast, Script, music, Just everything.

Filmed right here in Oregon. The fishing scene is at Depot Bay, where my grandfather fished for salmon, throughout the 60s-70s. ❤ 🎣

I was 14 in 1975 when I sneaked into the theater with a friend to see this, the first R-rated film I ever saw. It had a big impact on me, being so compelling, gritty, funny, disturbing, and its tragic ending. "Cuckoo's Nest" won Academy Awards for Best PIcture, Actor, Actress, Director, and Screenplay. Only two other films did the same: It Happened One Night (1934), and Silence of The Lambs (1991).

One of the greatest movies ever made, the academy thought so also! It was also great to see "Hong Kong Phoeey" playing a mild-mannered janitor! 😄😄😄

This movie not only launched the careers of MANY of the supporting cast members but put Czeck director Milos Forman on the map and won Michael Douglas his first Oscar as producer....

So good that you chose this movie it's perfect, poor Billy has a domineering puritanical mother which is why he's such a mess and doesn't want to leave the hospital. Ratchet knows this and uses it as a threat to keep him on edge. Had to laugh when Ellie made Lia promise to get her out if she ever ended up in one of these places 😄

One of the most infamous film villains of all time: Nurse Mildred Ratched, a cold-hearted, cruel tyrant who cared more about maintaining ORDER than about helping anyone. She was a master of passive-aggressive bullying. When given the opportunity to get McMurphy out of her ward, she chose to keep him there, just because he was a threat to her power and control. She would never admit to being unable to control anyone. Even the actress who played her, Louise Fletcher, couldn't bear to watch the film, as her character was so horrible. Winner of 5 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor (Jack Nicholson), Best Actress (Louise Fletcher)

This was my grandads favourite film and I watched it a month after he passed away to feel closer to him. It was the first time watching it and I couldn’t stop crying afterwards. My grandad suffered with his mental health all throughout his life and it made me understand him a little better ❤️💔

is one of the best movies of the 70's, winning 5 Oscars (Movie, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay). Girls should see more movies from that time: Network, Dog Afternoon, All the President's Men, among others.

You would have LOVED the stage play I played Chief Bromden. . . he has MUCH more dialogue in the play than he does in the movie.

THANKS for reacting to this great movie, this and the shining was jack nicklesons greatest movies. this movie won many awards and brought attention to the horrible conditions in americas mental institutions which led to some new laws over them. mr macmurphy was first given the barberic "shock therapy" that was given to some depressed people in psycharichy in the 30's to 2000 or so, it damaged peoples brains, he was given a "labotomy" in the end where a part of the brain is removed, another barbaric practice in psychaiatry from years past.. . please react to "psycho" from 1960 and a more recent film "american psycho"....( NOT rel;ated movies but both are great!). Love you all!!!.

R.I.P. Louise Fletcher (Nurse Ratched), she passed away just last September 😢

The Young Danny DeVito (Martini) is so unrecognizable.

Fantastic reaction to a great movie. R.I.P. Louise Fletcher.....we're STILL watching you. This reaction video is the indisputable proof. The two actors no one ever mentions: Sydney Lassick's incredible performance as Cheswick and William Redfield's equally-as-great performance as Harding. Of course there isn't a bad performance in the bunch. Keep hitting the classics of the late 60s-70s. You have to see NETWORK, and BONNIE AND CLYDE and THE GRADUATE and MIDNIGHT COWBOY and CARNAL KNOWLEDGE and AMERICAN GRAFFITI and ALL THAT JAZZ and PAPER MOON and CARRIE, etc etc...There are so many! You guys would KILL on Bonnie And Clyde!

I hope chief made it to Canada.

Shock treatment probably saved my mother's life. It's also seeing a resurgence in the mental health field. It's not always bad.

Such a huge cast in this movie. Danny Devito, Christipher lloyd (Doc in back to the future, Brad Doriuf who played the role of Billy had a special guest role in Star Trek Voyager as Lon Sudder & more recentlty played Grima Wormtounge in Lord of the rings. I'm sure you recognize other characters from this movie in roles in many other movies since the Cukoo's nest 😊

All Actors were spot on.

31:30 Electroconvulsive therapy causes a relatively controlled seizure in the brain. In the terrible past of medicine it has been used without proper indication and without anesthesia, as is famously shown in the film. In the modern era it is used under anesthesia and in very specific cases where the therapy has actually been shown to produce positive results against problems with neural function.

Nurse Ratched knows just enough psychology to study everyone's weaknesses and use it against them.

Electroshock therapy used to be a very common treatment for severe mental illnesses including very severe depression and bipolar. They also used to use some pretty heavy drugs. Scary stuff, but the shocks actually did help people. How they possibly could have discovered this? "Nothing else has worked so we're gonna put 25,000 volts through ya. Don't worry though. It's not the volts that get ya. It's the amps."

The older man who plays the head Doctor was a real life physician and noticed William Redfield (the actor who played Harding) was exhibiting troubling symptoms during filming. He ended up diagnosing Redfield with Leukemia and gave him 18 months to live (this was before bone marrow transplants were possible). Redfield died in August of '76... 18 months after his diagnosis - almost to the day.

Do you recognize Scat Man Cruthers? He played the night orderly. He also was in The Shining. 37:44 Lia gave Ellie the side eye because alcohol and psych meds don’t mix. 40:04 there is an alien from Men in Black. 44:20 There is a ghost. 49:06 Don’t cross Ellie. 51:52 The word you are looking for is lobotomy.

Those are 45 rpm records one song on each side.

Great reaction. Glad you enjoyed it. Easily, EASILY in my top 5 favorite films.

Did you guys notice how many famous people as young actors were in this movie “Shock Therapy”and Brain surgery is called a “Lobotomy” very controversial you could say the big Indian Chief escaping the Mental Hospital was One Flew Over The Coocoo’s Nest lobotomy is a type of brain surgery that became popular in the 1930s as a treatment for mental health conditions such as schizophrenia. It involves severing the connection between the frontal lobe and other parts of the brain.

You kidding? This a VERY famous movie....swept the Academy Awards for the 1975 season.1😉

Thank you so much for reacting to this film. Yes, the ending is so emotional that it can be hard to watch. This would have to be one of my favourite films. I am so glad that both of you got to experience it.

Read the book written by Ken Kesey who worked as a psychiatric nurse/orderly on night shift, the book is narrated by Chief ,Ratched is called the big nurse ,Harding is called Hard on ,you get alot more back story of the patients and staff in the novel ,well worth reading.

Is it considered famous if it won an Oscar as best picture?

Nice to see Danny Devito and Christopher Lloyd in this classic.

My uncle Paul went to a place like this once when I was a kid, I visited him there. I didn’t like him being there, he was released but became a ward of the state, and lived in halfway homes until he passed away in July 2019. RIP

Chief final moments with McMurphy - Ellie: tears up. Lia: Is critical of his form.

Great reaction, girls. This is one of the best films of all time. Please encourage Viki and Michelle to react to it also! ps~Just FYI, the subtitles you watched said, "Miss Ratched", but that was a mistake. Everyone called her, "Nurse Ratched". (By the way, the actress who played her won the Oscar for Best Actress. Jack Nicholson won for Best Actor, and the film also won Best Director and Best Picture.)

1. Gold nuggets in the cast. 2. This movie snagged all of the top 5 Oscars.😎 3. Harding resembles my old barber/friend(RIP) WWII vet. 4. The author of the book was Ken Kesey, well known for LSD usage, was loaded when he wrote this. 5. Mac did more for those guys than Nurse Ratched and her crew. 6. Ratched uses Billy's mother as her weapon. They all have their weaknesses, and she uses whatever they are against them for control. 7. Scatman and Nicholson worked together in "The Shining". 8. They gave Mac a lobotomy and the Chief put him out of his misery. He knew Mac wouldn't want to live like that. 9. The book is written from Chief Bronden's POV. 10. RIP Louise Fletcher😇

Excellent movie. I worked at Oregon State Hospital where sections of this movie were filmed.

So beautiful. So very beautiful...your reactions, at the ending. This Oscar award winning performance from Jack Nicholson was magnificent. The all star cast featured many future stars debuting on the silver screen and for Tv in time to come. This was a spectacular films and tv in the years to come. This motion picture and the acting and screenplay were momentous and I cannot praise you guys enough for your reactions to it all the way throughout. The look on your faces....priceless. It is so wicked cool to see your generation waking up to and discovering my generations films and music. I think you Homies would all do well in reacting to our 1970's, 1980's, and 90's music / songs. Idk if you are stuck only on RAP, ( like so many young people are), today. That is soo lame and one sided. I hope you have opened your minds to the world of real music with real voices, not autotune. And real musical instruments with the raw talent required by individuals to provide it. The songwriting also. Our generation did not depend on digitalized computer generated music and lyrics, or other professionals to provide songs ready made for them.. We relied upon real talent in our singers and entertainers back then. Not just anyone can produce killer music and/or really good films. Today Hollyweird cranks out mostly garbage. The stuff we read and saw in our comic books for back then sold 10 and 15 cents. That is about all the movies containing material for 8 and 10 year olds pass for movie material and screenplays today. They, also, are worth about the same price, as far as I'm concerned. No matter how much CGI they throw at it. . Anyway I think it is beautiful to see you guys, with your soft and tender hearts reacting to this kind of stuff, here, with this classic picture from 1975. Much peace and lots of love, girls. Shoutout from this old, longhaired, Southern boy, from across the pond, in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. U.S.A. . Cannot wait to see another from you lovely Homies. We love you lots. Later.

Thank you guys for doing this wonderful movie. This is what makes you guys the best out there. Also thank you for being thoughtful and warm hearted.

this was a huge hit when it came out and won tons of awards. it also had a big influence on how american society views mental illness. this is a very important film. glad you guys watched it. keep on rockin

RIP Milos Forman

I love how elle said it didn't look so bad there they had puzzles and calming pills in the United States we call them valium Xanax Clonazepam 😂😆

Lea was spot on when she said nurse Ratched has the problem with control. Ratched probably saw McMurphy as a challenge which she needed to overcome to keep exerting her dominance.

Thank you ladies for reminding me how great this movie was/is. ❤️

One of the greatest movies of all time and one of the greatest ever performances by Jack Nicholson.

RIP Louise Fletcher (Nurse Ratched)

It was great to share the experience with you guys xx

Such a great movie, and wonderfully acted! So glad you ladies enjoyed it and appreciated it.

"I think that the series will give them too much adrenaline" Probably the wisest sentence of the whole reaction, even with the soulful expression of its author.😁

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ELLIE ROCKIN THE PINK HAIR!

Yay yay yay!! One of my all time favorites!! Nicholson reminds me of my Papaw. He’s a hooligan. Another good old one with Nicholson vibes is dirty Mary crazy Larry… or dirty Larry Crazy Mary lol… one of those 😂

I absolutely hated the ending of that film. It hurt so bad to see what they did to Jack Nicholson's character. That was the intention of it, sure. For they had to do a lobotomy for him to need be there. It's crazy how mental "institutions" used to work. I imagine, they're not too far off from this now, except using heavier medications. So sad.

Filmed at the real nut house in Oregon

Yes, it’s a very famous movie. It’s a classic!

There's a hilarious little detail, when McMurphy borrows the fishing boat, he introduces all the patients as "Doctor" except for Harding, who only gets a "Mister" :D

I used to live in the town where the boat came in and out. Massive shark bit a guy in half not too far from that bridge about 15 yrs ago. Also, great movie👍

acting debuts of danny devito, chrisopher lloyd and brad dourif.

Ellie is Ellie. Hilarious 😂. "I could make it a year in there. (I could pass for a nutcase.) 🤣 This is good stuff.😉

hola girls! glad to be back... I've not had suggestions for your content in a hot min! Glad I came across this one!

The one inmate is Doc in "Back to the Future". He co-stars in a different film set about mental patients as well, but much more a comedy called "The Dream Team" Rules for institutions are a lot tighter on how long they can hold people in the U.S. Which leads to a different problem. Many people with mental problems going untreated and ending up homeless.

I don't know what it is about when you see someone cry at the same moments in a film as you

Thanks so much for doing this film. It means a lot to me

What was done to McMurphy at first was electrical shock treatment, then before the end of the film when Chief found out what they did to him by looking at his condition in bed Chief notices they did lobotomy which is a procedure of surgically removing some pieces of the brain to basically turn McMurphy into a zombie so to speak, taking away his true personality. These type of treatments are no longer practiced, but I did see a documentary some years ago that the patients with mental issues can make requests to have lobotomy done to them if they feel a need to be it done. Also State Mental Hospitals were shut down during the 80's when Ronald Reagan was President under the pressure of the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union). That is one of the reasons we have so many homeless individuals that have serious mental issues here in America that live out on the streets and cause many problems to the communities in the cities. And for them to receive any kind of help is very difficult. By the way ladies, good reaction on the 1975 film 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

i just noticed chief had straps holding him in bed, that he could undo.. i wonder if he had killed someone, like his father, and told them that he did it in his sleep?

52:01 "They cutted something from his brain so he is a vegetable, probably" Yes, that is what they did. In English that is called a Lobotomy, exactly what you said.

I LOVE ELLIE'S PINK HAIR!

It was a record player. I still have my 45rpm records and 8 track tapes.

I love watching Ellie cry at the sad parts she's the only girl who looks beautiful crying... Awesome video girls.

There are a lot of historical connotations in this movie. Chief being a Native American escaping his captors and running free in his homeland.

Billy, Mac and the Chief... now they are ALL free.

They don't make movies like this no more.

Electroshock therapy or ECT was used in the past as a way to treat mental illness, not so much anymore, usually under anesthesia and much rarer. As for that scene, that was a real nurse and Jack Nicholson actually got shocked, on purpose.

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What did Ellie say to Lia at 27:28? It's hard to make out, the way she laughed and said, "No I'm not," must have been something funny.

Film is set in the 1960s...In case you didn't know, mental health treatment has changed drastically in the past 60 years...Most mental institutions like this were closed years ago and, not coincidentally, the homeless problem in the US became epidemic.

Years later, on *Star Trek: Deep Space Nine* ,when Louise Fletcher played the recurring character of Winn Adami ... a conniving witch who basically ends up betraying everybody while hiding behind the mask of a righteous spiritual leader ... I couldn't help but think of Nurse Ratched.

Absolutely one of the all time most powerful films.

Wow, Ellie that hair is fire!

Even before the Shining it was a Classic and My Friends were in the Play for this Movie when I was us High School😎☺️..It was Fun to watch them Act Crazy

Louise Fletcher did the part as Nurse Ratched. She did it amazingly & got the oscar for it. (most people hate her character and it's the feeling you are supposed to get). Electro Shock Therapy was used alot and not used in the right ways in the old days sadly. (if you wanna see something scarier read about the creep jerk who started doing ice pick lobotomies in a day, you drop off patient and get lunch and then come back and boom they are out of it etc, horrible...) These mental hospitals would do lobotomies but when necessary and or when they felt necessary. Billy's character's mom had him committed and Ratched and her were friends; Ratched would hold over him about how his mother would feel and it would scare billy and made him do what he did sadly. (the guy who plays billy is famous , he was grimma worm tongue in LOTR , he was in alien 4, he was in xfiles etc) They did a front lobal lobotomy (i think that's what its called) makes him basically a vegetable.

ELLIE LOOKS GOOD WITH THE PINK HAIR!

I really love this movie👍🏼😊🎥🎞️

NICE PINK HAIR ELLIE!

They did a Labodomy, A Surgical procedure that is done on the Brain on McMurphy, I Believe that's what they did. Great Reaction! Thank you!

You ladies should watch an old Paul Newman movie called "Cool Hand Luke"

They don't make movies like this anymore. I miss this kind of film making.