Ah, Juicy Fruit!

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

(1975)

Another one from my youth that disappoints a bit: an acting tour de force, but there's not much subtlety here, is there, not too much ambiguity--not to much that asks to be thought about rather than just expected? Still, always fun to see if only to remember how young Brad Dourif and Christopher Lloyd and Danny DeVito--and for that matter, Nicholson--used to be. And I appreciated Billy Redfield's performance as Harding more this screening, my first since learning that he was Guildenstern in the 1964 Gielgud-Burton Hamlet, and since reading his wonderful memoir of the experience.