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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) More at IMDbPro »

5/10

Ratched finds Billy in bed with a woman.

Mac is interrupted when he's about to have sex with a woman on a fishing boat. We see her bare back.

Mac pretends to masturbate on two occasions, with associated sounds and hand movements. There are several other masturbation references with terms like "jerking off".

A man's bare butt is shown for about 3 or 4 second

8/10

Mac punches an attendant hard as he is trying to escape

A patient kills himself with a glass shard because he is afraid the nurse will tell his mother he had sex with a hooker. All you see is a blood covered room, the patient's slit throat and bloody body and the nurse's hysterical reaction.

Mac chokes Nurse Ratched. Mac is then punched from behind and knocked out (later lobotomized into a vegetative condition). Bromden finds Mac was made unable to escape ("worked on") and smothers him with a pillow in a form of mercy killing, then makes his own escape ripping out a bathroom water- spraying machine as a battering ram to hurl through a window.

8/10

About 37 uses of "f**k", including 4 uses of "motherf**ker".

One use of the word "c**t".

Many uses of other words, such as "shit", "bitch" and "bastard".

5/10

Mac smokes while he is being evaluated.

Several characters are seen smoking sporadically.

Many of the characters are seen drinking, esp. at the party Mac arranges the night before his unsuccessful escape attempt. Bromden tells Mac how his father became an alcoholic and is now blind from years of it ("worked on").

9/10

After McMurphey is lobotimzed, "Chief" Bromden euthanizes him (suffocation)

Billy's death is incredibly sad and depressing.

As a whole, the movie is very depressing and cynical.

The last scene of the movie is very disturbing and emotional. Upsetting.

Overall:35/50

15-17+ , depending on the viewer.

Rated R for Violence, Sex-Related Dialogue, Some Smoking, and Language