One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – one of the best movies I ever saw.

Cuckoo’s Nest

The year’s 1975 – and my family’s living in Sunrise, Florida – My Favorite Daughter & Favorite Son are 10 and 8 – the weather’s perfect for outside activities.

Nadia Comănec is a media darling on the Romanian gymnastics team – so the Favorite Daughter is doing gymnastics when she isn’t hanging around with her school chums.

The Favorite Son is playing flag football & Koury League baseball when he isn’t outside playing.

The Favorite Ex is playing mahjong with her Jewish girlfriends.

And I’m in softball leagues all year round – two nights a week plus Sunday mornings – also playing basketball on the Seminole Indians Reservation team – and playing pickup basketball at the courts on Hollywood Boulevard in my free time.

In other words, we’re not doing much as a family.

Now this sounds like the Favorite Ex’s idea – but they triple-team me – we’re going to dedicate one night each week to doing something as a family – going out to eat, bowling, movies, & who knows what else.

For one of our first family affairs, they tell me we’re going to the movies to see One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – what a stupid title – I mumble curses under my breath all the way down the aisle to our seats – then I sit down, watch the movie, and laugh my ass off – until the end – when it stops being one of the funniest movies I ever saw.

But I loved it – so when the suggestion pops up yesterday – I watch it again – bet I’m in triple figures by now.

IMDB describes 1975’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest like so: “A criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.”

Based on the novel of the same name by Ken Kesey, the movie stars Jack Nicholson as R. P. McMurphy & Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched – with a great undercast – Danny DeVito (Martini), Sydney Lassick (Chesley), Christopher Lloyd (Tabor), Will Sampson (Chief), Brad Douriff (Billy Bibbet), William Redfield (Harding), and Scatman Crothers (Turkle).

My Favorite Son and I both read the book many years later.  

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The story takes 21 years to play out – with many twists & turns – an amalgam of Sons of Anarchy & Breaking Bad – but these outlaw bikers make the Sons look like Cub Scouts.