I LOVED the book. The movie, not so much. Which is really disappointing since considering it's not that difficult of a story line to portray alongside the book. Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher did a great job in their roles but that is pretty much it.

The movie "The One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," directed by Milos Forman, would be rated 3 out of 5 stars for me because many changes were made while adapting the book into a movie, there was very little emotional connection for me, however the actors were great fits for the characters. There were many changes that I didn't appreciate in the movie version. Some important plot pieces were completely taken out changing the story line, such as Chief going to the fishing trip all together. Because of all these changes I had a difficult time having an emotional connection to the events and characters in the story. The changes made the movie seem rushed therefore the feelings I gathered from the movie was much less in comparison to the book version. However, the characters were all loveable thanks to the people who played their parts. Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Danny Devito, Brad Dourif, Will Sampson, and many other actors did a phenomenal job depicting their characters just as they were in the book. Reading the book of course I was going to have a biased of the movie; however, the people playing the characters in the story truly gave me the most perfect representation of the characters that I was imagining in my head. I would have wanted more screen time to have had the story be better developed so I could have more of an emotional stance on the movie, and so we could have more screen time with these amiable characters.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest received a 6/10 stars due to the combination of the plot and the acting in this classic movie. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest was directed by Milos Forman, and the story was written by Ken Kesey. The plot was very iffy from the beginning due to key events in the story missing such as: Chief didn't have any role compared to his role in the book, Cheswick did not drown himself, and the Doctor not going fishing with the patients. Lastly it felt like the only thing going well for the movie would be the perfect acting of the characters, they literally made this movie good. Other than that the director missed many opportunities to make this movie astounding with his acting crew, but choked with the plot of the story.

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (OFOCN) is a movie that was released in 1975; it is based off a book bearing the same name by Ken Kesey and directed by Milos Forman. I would just like to quickly note that I read the book; had I not read the book, I may have thought that "OFOCN" was a good movie, despite the recurrent plot choppiness, but since I read the book, I believe that it is only an okay movie. The movie does not follow the book very well. The main idea of the plot was still there, but there are things that were important in the book, but left out in the movie. The character interpretation left something to be desired. Sure there were good actors- Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito, and Christopher Lloyd- which made the movie better, but the personalities of their characters, especially those of Nicholson and Fletcher, were completely different and altered the plot a little. Another thing that was not close to being accurate was that the entire book was narrated from the main character, Chief Bromden's, point of view, complete with his hallucinations. In the movie, McMurphy is the main character, and Chief isn't even seen for most of the movie. I feel that the director could have done a better job with that; they could have used a voice over, so that chief could still narrate things from his point of view. Also, many of the important events that happened in the book, did not happen in the movie or they switched the characters that were in the events. The book was written to show how people with mental illness live and how they were treated at the time, which was shown in a deep way through the character personalities, the way they interacted, Chief's narration, and the events that happen in the book. Since the movie changed a lot of these things, I believe that the story lost its depth and its underlying meaning; it just became a movie about a sane guy disrupts a bunch of "crazy people". Lastly, the movie jumps around a lot; they leave out some details that leaves you wondering, "What caused this to be happening now?" Overall, I recommend that you either read the book or watch the movie, not both, though I would recommend the book over the movie any day. The movie itself has good actors and a fairly strong plot line, but does not follow the book it is based off of very well. All in all, I would give OFOCN a 5 out of 10.