By Dale Wasserman
Comedy Drama / 13m, 4f / Int. w. inset. Kirk Douglas performed on Broadway as an enthralling rogue who contrives to serve a brief sentence in an ethereal psychological establishment particularly in a jail. This, he learns, used to be a mistake. He clashes with the pinnacle nurse, a fierce artinet. speedy, he's taking over the backyard and accomplishes what the clinical career has been not able to do for twelve years; he makes a presumed deaf and dumb Indian speak. He leads others out of introversion, phases a insurrection with a view to see the realm sequence on tv, and arranges a rollicking nighttime get together with liquor and chippies. For one offense, the top nurse has him undergo surprise therapy. The celebration is just too horrid for her and he or she forces him to undergo a last correction a frontal lobotomy. Winner of the 2001 Outer Critics Circle Award for notable Revival. "Cuckoo is captivating." - the hot York submit "Scarifying and powerful." - the hot York instances
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The meeting was closed. ) HARDING. ) Mac. NURSE RATCHED. You men will now go back to your duties. ) Did you hear me? ) McMURPHY. Don't move Billy - sit down. ) NURSE RATCHED. Didyou hear me? (['he MEN break and start back to their duties. ) McMURPHY. ) Hoo, boy, lookit that. It's a hit. Right down the middle! RARDING. (Catching on, looks at NURSE RATCHED, wavers. ) Run, you mother-loving turkey, run! ~ARTINI. ) Two bases, two. Look out, there roes the throw. SCANLON. He missed it! Overthrew second!
Okay, let 'er rip! ) ANNOUNCER'S VOICE. ) ... and he swings! At a bad pitch, oh my, and the count is three and two with the tying run on second base. It's the bottom of the sixth ... a hit and run situation ... here comes the windup. It's a - 50 ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (In the Station NURSE RATCHED has opened a panel on the wall behind the desk and thrown a switch. The TV cuts off abruptly. ) NURSE RATCHED. ) The meeting was closed. ) HARDING. ) Mac. NURSE RATCHED. You men will now go back to your duties.
Couldn't you see this man had nothing on but a towel? McMURPHY. ) And my cap ... NURSE RATCHED. Well ... WARREN. He ... he got up too early. NURSE RATCHED. Got up too early. You'll get his clothing this instant, Mr. Warren, or spend the next two weeks on Geriatrics cleaning bedpans! (WARREN exits, smoldering. ") And you - get rid of that towel at once. McMURPHY. Certainly! (Whips it off. Underneath he is wearing black satin shorts with an imprint of big white whales with red eyes. ) Ain't they some shit?