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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	comment	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 comedy-drama film co-produced by Michael Douglas, directed by MiloÅ¡ Forman, and starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher. Based the 1962 novel by Ken Kesey, it mostly follows the original plot, albeit with a number of deviations which allow it to work better on the big screen.It takes place in 1963 at an Oregon mental hospital run by Nurse Ratched (Fletcher), who rules over the patients with an iron fist. She holds so much power over them that no one dares to stand up to her... until Randle Patrick McMurphy (Nicholson) swaggers into the ward and things are never the same again.It is one of only three films to sweep the "Big Five" major Academy Awards—Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay. (The others are It Happened One Night and Silence of the Lambs.) Like the latter of these, it now has a TV series prequel: Ratched.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Producer Saul Zaentz appears as a man at the inmates' bus outing.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_153299b4	type	Boisterous Bruiser
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_153299b4	comment	Boisterous Bruiser: McMurphy.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: What McMurphy pretends to be to get committed. Unfortunately for him, Nurse Ratched actually is one.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_1a237409	type	Order Versus Chaos
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_1a237409	comment	Order Versus Chaos: With chaos portrayed as good.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_1da5941e	type	The Quiet One
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One: Bromden. At first. Several of the other patients that don't participate in the therapy group are likewise mostly nonverbal.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_20d5ac0e	type	Sex Is Liberation
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_20d5ac0e	comment	Sex Is Liberation: Billy.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: In the book, the Japanese nurse in the Disturbed Ward turns out to be surprisingly sympathetic towards the patients, treating McMurphy and Bromden after their fight with Ratched's orderlies, is critical of the more barbaric elements in the mental hospitals, and confirms nurses like Ratched are "a little sick themselves"; she even notes she'd prefer keeping patients in her ward to keep them away from Ratched, if she were capable of doing so. In the film, while she's not a villain, she's reduced to another cog in the hospital's machine, and administers McMurphy's electroshock treatment.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The Hydrotherapy Console. In the first scenes of the film, Dr. Spivey and McMurphy have an extended conversation about a framed photo on Dr. Spivey's desk. This photo frame is likely the source of the broken glass that Billy Bibbit uses to slash his wrists and jugular later on in committing suicide.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_2bb06191	type	Adaptational Sexuality
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_2bb06191	comment	Adaptational Sexuality: In the novel, Harding was as heavily implied to be gay as was possible in 1960s literature, depicted as effeminate, forced into the asylum for unnamed sexual acts, and getting a long speech about the ridiculousness of the society that condemned him. In the movie, the other inmates tease him by implying that he is homosexual, but he's far from effeminate and is said to have a wife (although Nurse Ratched voices a theory that he is unconsciously jealous of the affection she shows toward other men). If he is meant to be gay in the film, he's likely deep in the closet.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_2f913008	type	Insanity Defense
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_2f913008	comment	Insanity Defense: McMurphy claims he's insane to get transferred to the institution to serve out the rest of his sentence in cushy surroundings and is more than a little alarmed when he realizes that 'the rest of his sentence' is no longer the original length of a few months but whenever the doctors decide that he's no longer a threat to himself or others— which, considering he's pissed off the evil Nurse Ratched, could mean an indefinite stay.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_306b9de9	type	Electric Torture
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_306b9de9	comment	Electric Torture: The hospital permits Ratched to order electroshock therapy for patients who exhibit violent outbursts, or even just defend other patients from the staff, which she exploits fully.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_315a122	type	Hospital Hottie
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_315a122	comment	Hospital Hottie: Nurse Pilbow and Nurse Ratched.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_32c082ae	type	Bury Your Disabled
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_32c082ae	comment	Bury Your Disabled: At the end of the film, a lobotomized McMurphy is Mercy Killed by his friend.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: The nine remaining men on the ward (the General who is endlessly dancing, the bald catatonic guy, etc). The most screentime they get is the scene where Randle tries to convince them to cast a deciding vote to watch the World Series.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: McMurphy himself at the end.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_39315ffe	type	Stutter Stop
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_39315ffe	comment	Stutter Stop: Billy loses his stutter after McMurphy arranges a rite of manhood for him. It doesn't take Nurse Ratched long to break him back down into a stuttering mess by playing into his psychological trauma.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_3db71fa8	type	Blithe Spirit
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_3db71fa8	comment	Blithe Spirit: McMurphy challenges Nurse Ratched's unfair rule over the hospital and its sheepish patients, teaching them how to take back their individuality and bend or break the often arbitrary rules they live under. Other than Bromden, it's debatable how much good this does them in the end.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Nurse Ratched loses the excessive power she held over the patients and Bromden finally manages to escape the ward , but at the cost of Billy, who commits suicide, and McMurphy, who gets lobotomized by the hospital, forcing Bromden to Mercy Kill him.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite mocking and berating the gang so much McMurphy genuinely seems to develop a bond with them and is ultimately driven to his Rage Breaking Point when Nurse Ratched drives Billy to Suicide. This is especially evident with his interactions with Chief. Sure, McMurphy tastelessly ridicules Chief's ethnicity, but Mac was still the only one on the ward who even bothered trying to befriend Chief. It's quite clear from scenes like the basketball game that McMurphy genuinely wanted to bring some joy into Chief's life.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Harding.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_4bfe435c	type	Lobotomy
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_4bfe435c	comment	Lobotomy: After McMurphy attacks Ratched, he is lobotomized and left in a vegetative state. Bromden mercy kills him.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Mac passes supposedly deaf/mute Bromden a stick of chewing gum and Bromden says, "Thank you."
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_4eb66c8d	type	White Male Lead
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_4eb66c8d	comment	White Male Lead: While the original novel is narrated by Bromden, a Native American, the film makes McMurphy into the lead. Justified because the main conflict involves McMurphy and Nurse Ratched, and Bromden's first-person narration in the book is completely lost in a visual medium like film.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: In the book, Nurse Ratched is described as a handsome woman who was probably quite beautiful when she was in her prime; Fletcher, who was in her early 40s while filming, was undoubtedly still quite lovely. Inverted with Harding, who is described in the novel as looking like a film star. In the film, he looks like an average (or perhaps even slightly unattractive) middle-aged man. This may have to do with his homosexuality being toned down a lot in the movie, as he was a stereotypical pretty boy in the book.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_5625538f	type	Stupidity-Inducing Attack
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_5625538f	comment	Stupidity-Inducing Attack: A medical lobotomy is used for this purpose, to pacify a particularly troublesome patient.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_5e032315	type	One-Book Author
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_5e032315	comment	One-Book Author: Real-life example. Nurse Pilbow is played by Mimi Sarkisian in her only credited screen role, although she was also in the play.note She also makes an uncredited appearance in The Right Stuff, again playing a nurse (as a likely Actor Allusion).
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: The movie follows the base plot of the book fairly closely. However, it takes several liberties for the sake of working better on film, namely shifting the focus from Bromden (who narrated the book in first-person) to McMurphy, altering certain events like the circumstances of Bromden revealing that he was Obfuscating Disability, and cutting expository moments that were in the original book to streamline the film's narrative. Other aspects like Bromden's schizophrenia-induced hallucinations and nightmares and Unreliable Narrator qualities are cut simply because they wouldn't have been feasibly executable at the time.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Bromden, related to bromide, a tranquilizer.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Billy Bibbit.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_6ea4cf8c	type	Jailbait Taboo
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_6ea4cf8c	comment	Jailbait Taboo: Why McMurphy was incarcerated to begin with. As he explains to Spivey:
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_70165a72	type	Orderlies are Creeps
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_70165a72	comment	Orderlies are Creeps: Downplayed; in the novel, the orderlies are sadists who viciously beat and even sexually abuse the patients. In the film, most of the orderlies generally get along fine with the patients, talking with them and even playing basketball with them in the yard. However, they are also ultimately willing to go along with Ratched's orders without protest, and Washington in particular seems to take sadistic pleasure in tormenting McMurphy. It's not clear whether he does this because Mac is a trouble-maker or because Washington is cruel towards many of the other patients as well.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_716cdf08	type	Vorpal Pillow
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_716cdf08	comment	Vorpal Pillow: Bromden sets McMurphy free from the asylum by suffocating him with a pillow.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_71748a39	type	Named by the Adaptation
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_71748a39	comment	Named by the Adaptation: In the novel, Nurse Ratched's first name is never revealed. In the film, when the hospital committee meets to discuss McMurphy's behavior, Dr. Spivey calls her "Mildred". Also, when McMurphy returns from electroconvulsive therapy and sits down at the group therapy session, he calls her "Mildred".
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_72bafff5	type	Doomed Moral Victor
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_72bafff5	comment	Doomed Moral Victor: The death of Billy causes McMurphy to attack Nurse Ratched leading to him being locked up, lobotomized, and eventually killed by his friend.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_73e51847	type	Missing the Good Stuff
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_73e51847	comment	Missing the Good Stuff: McMurphy is very unhappy about being prevented by Nurse Ratched from watching the World Series on television. Subverted when he entertains himself and the other inmates by "announcing" an imaginary game while staring at the darkened TV screen.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Charles Cheswick drowns in a swimming pool (implied to be a suicide) in the novel but survives the movie. According to Word of God, Cheswick was spared to make Billy Bibbit's death more shocking.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_75c7fd73	type	Totally 18
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_75c7fd73	comment	Totally 18: This is part of the reason why McMurphy is locked up; he had sex with an underage girl that (he says) claimed she was eighteen.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_779009b5	type	Beware the Quiet Ones
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_779009b5	comment	Beware the Quiet Ones: The huge but previously completely passive Chief Bromden almost crushes one of the orderlies to death in a bear hug when the orderly tries to break McMurphy's arm.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_788130a2	type	Emotional Regression
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_788130a2	comment	Emotional Regression: Billy is a chronically shy and soft-spoken young man with an intense fear of his mother and an unrelenting stutter. With the help of McMurphy, he manages to have sex for the first time, losing his virginity and gaining the confidence of a man. However, when Nurse Ratched returns, she calls him out and attempts to shame him. He responds without a stutter that he's proud of himself and isn't having any of it. Then she says she's going to tell his mother...
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_79190971	type	Karmic Trickster
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_79190971	comment	Karmic Trickster: Deconstructed with McMurphy, since he lacks the usual Karmic Protection.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: The deaf-mute "Chief" Bromden who eventually reveals to McMurphy that he's faking it. Despite an impressive amount of screentime, Nurse Pilbow utters maybe just a couple of syllables throughout the entire movie and her entire purpose is to perform Nurse Ratched's orders. Also, the camera tends to zoom onto her face for a Reaction Shot whenever the patients start displaying extraordinary behavior. The background patients on the ward, some of whom were real patients of the hospital the movie was shot at.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: At an early point in the movie, McMurphy boasts that he is going to break out of the mental hospital by lifting a water fountain and chucking it through a window. The inmates don't believe him, so he bets them money he can do it. He fails, but he shames the inmates by saying "Eh, at least I tried", unlike everyone else. The water fountain's a symbol for McMurphy's undying sense of freedom. He never believes that anything is impossible. He will never stop trying to live life his way, and that's exactly why the folks at the hospital eventually give him a lobotomy. Then later on in a deeply symbolic moment, Chief Bromden kills McMurphy and then lifts the same water fountain that McMurphy failed to lift earlier in the movie. Lifting the fountain is supposed to be impossible, but Chief reminds us that anything is possible for those who refuse to give in to authority. McMurphy always holds onto his pack of playing cards with pictures of nude women on them while in the mental hospital. This tells us a lot about McMurphy as a character. For one thing, he views women as sexual objects, which we see when he shows the doctor one of the nude cards and casually asks, "Where do you suppose she lives?" Keep in mind that he's been convicted of statutory rape. The cards also show that McMurphy likes to gamble in every sense of the word, and often take risks. Finally, McMurphy's very devoted to playing games he knows he can win. That's why he gets so upset with the way Nurse Ratched always manipulates situations in her favor. As McMurphy tells one doctor, "She likes a rigged game." He symbolizes his dislike for her by loudly flicking through his playing cards while she's trying to speak. That's not to say he doesn't like a rigged game, he's just annoyed that someone is better at rigging the game than he is. Nurse Ratched is a dictator when it comes to deciding how things are going to work in her hospital ward. But she also has this clever way of never seeming like a dictator as she uses false logic to make it seem as though all her judgments are objective. For example, she lets the patients vote on McMurphy's idea to watch the World Series game only because she knows they'll vote against it. When the patients reverse their votes on the second occasion, Ratched still gets her way by saying there were only 9 votes from the 18 patients, not caring that only nine of the patients are lucid enough to know what they're voting on. So whether things go one way or another, Ratched will find a way to get her way, and if the patients get upset about this, she'll just send them off for electroshock therapy. Basically, voting in this movie symbolizes a fake sense of freedom â€“ the belief that your vote and your opinion count when they actually don't. When Chief Bromden sees McMurphy's lobotomy scars at the end of this movie, he realizes that the hospital has made McMurphy into an obedient zombie for life. His scars mark the final victory of rules and conformity over freedom and the individual, which Chief is aware of. Chief kills McMurphy, feeling this is the only way to give Randle back his freedom. McMurphy became a hero to the other patients in the ward due to his ability to stand up to Nurse Ratched, and didn't want to see him wandering around with dead eyes and a scarred forehead, so Chief decides to take matter into his own hands and to give Mac back his freedom his own way and then he gave freedom to himself by breaking out of the hospital and running off into the forest.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Billy Bibbit, Charles Cheswick
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	hasFeature	Country Matters / int_aafa5498
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	hasFeature	Devilish Hair Horns / int_aafa5498
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	hasFeature	Doomed Moral Victor / int_aafa5498
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	hasFeature	Electroconvulsive Therapy Is Torture / int_aafa5498
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	hasFeature	Emotional Regression / int_aafa5498
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	hasFeature	Even Nerds Have Standards / int_aafa5498
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	hasFeature	Go Among Mad People / int_aafa5498
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	hasFeature	Go-Karting with Bowser / int_aafa5498
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	hasFeature	Insanity Defense / int_aafa5498
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	hasFeature	Jailbait Taboo / int_aafa5498
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	hasFeature	Lobotomy / int_aafa5498
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	hasFeature	Obfuscating Disability / int_aafa5498
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	hasFeature	Orderlies are Creeps / int_aafa5498
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	hasFeature	Oscar Bait / int_aafa5498
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	hasFeature	Sex as Rite-of-Passage / int_aafa5498
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	hasFeature	Sex Is Liberation / int_aafa5498
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	hasFeature	Snub by Omission / int_aafa5498
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	hasFeature	Speech Impediment / int_aafa5498
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	hasFeature	Stutter Stop / int_aafa5498
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	hasFeature	The Cutie / int_aafa5498
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	hasFeature	The Voiceless / int_aafa5498
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	hasFeature	There Was a Door / int_aafa5498
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	hasFeature	Totally 18 / int_aafa5498
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	hasFeature	Vorpal Pillow / int_aafa5498
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	hasFeature	Wrongfully Committed / int_aafa5498
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	hasFeature	You Need to Get Laid / int_aafa5498
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	hasFeature	AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies / int_aafa5498

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