The Cuckoo

Starring:Anni-Kristiina Juuso, Ville Haapasalo, Viktor Bychkov, Aleksei Kashnikov, Aleksei Panzheyev, Vladimir Matveyev (II), Vladimir Knysh, Valeri Yakovlev, Sergei Berzin, Yuliya Pronicheva, Anna Voronina, Mikhail Korobochkin
Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Studio: Sony Pictures
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Pretty good, awesome acting, but things kind of fell apart towards the end
i read the book first
It's a Mad, Mad World...
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Starring: Jack Nicholson , Louise Fletcher , William Redfield , Michael Berryman , and Peter Brocco
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Release Date: 1997-12-17

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One of the key movies of the 1970s, when exciting, groundbreaking, personal films were still being made in Hollywood, Milos Forman's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest emphasized the humanistic story at the heart of Ken Kesey's more hallucinogenic novel. Jack Nicholson was born to play the part of Randle Patrick McMurphy, the rebellious inmate of a psychiatric hospital who fights back against the authorities' cold attitudes of institutional superiority, as personified by Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher). It's the classic antiestablishment tale of one man asserting his individuality in the face of a repressive, conformist system--and it works on every level. Forman populates his film with memorably eccentric faces, and gets such freshly detailed and spontaneous work from his ensemble that the picture sometimes feels like a documentary. Unlike a lot of films pitched at the "youth culture" of the 1970s, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest really hasn't dated a bit, because the qualities of human nature that Forman captures--playfulness, courage, inspiration, pride, stubbornness--are universal and timeless. The film swept the Academy Awards for 1976, winning in all the major categories (picture, director, actor, actress, screenplay) for the first time since Frank Capra's It Happened One Night in 1931. --Jim Emerson

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A nice rest in a state mental hospital beats a stretch in the pen, right? Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), a free-spirited con with lightning in his veins and glib on his tongue, fakes insanity and moves in with what he calls the "nuts." Immediately, his contagious sense of disorder runs up against numbing routine. No way should guys pickled on sedatives shuffle around in bathrobes when the World Series is on. This means war! On one side is McMurphy. On the other is soft-spoken Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher), among the most coldly monstrous villains in film history. At stake is the fate of every patient on the ward. Based on Ken Kesey's acclaimed bestseller, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest swept all five major 1975 Academy Awards: Best Picture (produced by Saul Zaentz and Michael Douglas), Actor (Nicholson), Actress (Fletcher), Director (Milos Forman) and Adapted Screenplay (Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman). Raucous, searing and with a superb cast that includes Brad Dourif, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd in his film debut, this one soars.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.......2007-07-04

A landmark film of the '70s, Forman's "Nest" is the anti-establishment film par excellence--and perhaps the finest showcase ever for the blazing talent and wild-man antics of a certain Jack Nicholson. Organizing illegal card games, playing hoops with the nutters, sneaking whores into the lockdown ward, McMurphy represents the zeal and passion of a truly free spirit. His interactions with Christopher Lloyd, Brad Dourif, and a young Danny DeVito are both hilarious and tragic, but it's his conflict with fellow Oscar winner Fletcher, as the hateful, repressed, order-obsessed Nurse Ratched, that ultimately seals his fate. Based on Ken Kesey's mordant novel, "Nest" is a grimly funny movie about madness and our irrepressible need to challenge authority.

Pretty good, awesome acting, but things kind of fell apart towards the end.......2007-06-24

Some aspects of the movie were excellent. Nicholson did a hell of a job, like always. He is just as believable as he wants to be. He is just crazy enough for the viewer to wonder if he belongs in the mental facility or if he is just faking to stay out of a labor-yard or the state penitentary. Some of his interactions with the head nurse and the other patients are unforgettable, like when he pretends he is watching baseball and starts the play by play announcing when the head nurse refuses to let the patients watch the world series.

I liked most of the movie and the plot development seemed to be right on cue. But once the movie started winding down, things stopped being believable. McMurphy seems to leave and enter the facility whenever he wants, cleverly eluding security, he bribes the guard with a box of liquor, and convinces his girlfriend to sleep with one of the patients. After the entire routine of trashing the mental facility at the cover of night, he decided to STAY instead of escape, when he could have easily escaped. This was just absurd and the movie lost its purpose at that point.

In typical, depressing fashion, everything falls apart, when the innocent young man commits suicide, McMurphy forsakes another attempt to escape. I won't give away the ending, but its not satisfying and not what I was hoping for, it made me feel that I wasted 2 1/2 hours of watching the film.

There were few enduring lessons; other than the motif of individuals who are on power trips, personified by the head nurse. The book is a classic and is known for developing this relationship masterfully. But in a 2 1/2 hour movie, it is hard to accomplish this dense character development. It just didn't work in my eyes.

This film usually gets great ratings, but it just didn't fly for me. I like classics, like Cool Hand Luke and the Godfather. But I don't like depressing, meaningless endings. Death, depression and failure don't necessarily make a "good" movie in my eyes. There needs to be more purpose behind it. The conversations and acting were great, but the last half hour of the movie was disappointing.

It seems as the writer of the script, and the author for that matter, had excellent material but really didn't know how to wrap it up for a memorable ending.

i read the book first.......2007-06-16

the book was much better, so it was hard to watch it. other than that it is an awesome movie.

It's a Mad, Mad World..........2007-05-29

Throughout my lifetime, I don't think I have ever met a red-blooded human being who did not appreciate the tragic charm of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
The amazing thing about this movie is that one does not need to be institutionalized to see that life itself is filled with "slightly off" people. No matter who or where you're from, we are all aware of how the term "crazy" has officially ingrained itself as a "normal" term in our daily vocabulary.

Frankly, I don't believe any of these characters were clinically insane.
I am confident quite a few people would agree with me in that statement.

What I found the most heartbreaking was the fact that the craziest of them all was the control-freak Ratched nurse who was supposedly there to help these people. It truly sickens me when such villains feed off of the fragility of the vulnerable. Talk about snatching a candy away from a poor, helpless baby...

To be honest, I've only seen this movie about three or four times.
But it has been one of those movies that really left an imprint in my mind by inspiring me to accept the fact that nobody is perfect -
and that sometimes, striving for perfection can indeed drive the most normal person insane.

I do believe - that when a single movie can possess such power,
it deserves nothing less than 5 complete stars.

Insane in the Membrane.......2007-05-15

This is the worst of the Danny DeVito comedies released in the mid-80s, and is far, far inferior to funnier flicks like "Down and Out in Beverly Hills," "Ruthless People," and "Other People's Money." Compared to them, this one is a comic stinker.

The premise is a good one-- a couple of wackos played by Danny DeVito, Jack Nicholson, Christopher Lloyd, and an Indian perform hijinks in an asylum and they plot to break out. The laughs, however, are few and far between and at times the only things that are funny are Jack Nicholson's hat and the fact that Michael Douglas directed this.

My biggest problem is that Jack Nicholson, who is great as The Joker (Batman), the Devil (The Witches of Eastwick) and a Wolf (Wolf) isn't very gifted at comedy. Imagine how much crazier it would have been if the crazy people were led by somebody like Tim Allen or Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan!

There is some funny business with a water fountain and a pillow at the end of the movie, but too little too late, if you ask me. Only rent this movie if you hate laughter.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Two-Disc Special Edition)

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Pretty good, awesome acting, but things kind of fell apart towards the end
i read the book first
It's a Mad, Mad World...
Insane in the Membrane

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Starring: Jack Nicholson , Louise Fletcher , William Redfield , Michael Berryman , and Peter Brocco
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.......2007-07-04

Pretty good, awesome acting, but things kind of fell apart towards the end.......2007-06-24

i read the book first.......2007-06-16

the book was much better, so it was hard to watch it. other than that it is an awesome movie.

It's a Mad, Mad World..........2007-05-29

Insane in the Membrane.......2007-05-15

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Beautiful, poignant and hilarious
Three People Beyond Words: Communication!
interesting, thought provoking film
Very Impressive ...
Great movie with many lessons

The Cuckoo
Starring: Anni-Kristiina Juuso , Ville Haapasalo , Viktor Bychkov , Aleksei Kashnikov , and Aleksei Panzheyev
Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin
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Release Date: 2003-12-02

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Beautiful, poignant and hilarious.......2007-06-22

The first 15 minutes of the movie when nothing was happening except for Veikko trying to free himself, we both throught that it was a boring and colorless movie. The rest of it we were literally falling off the sofa, so funny it was. The sheer premise of putting 3 people with different languages and different agendas in the same setting was beautifully explored here. The scene where Anni tries to bring Veikko back to life is rather eerie, but so gorgeously shot! I recommend this film to anyone who is sick and tired of Hollywood blockbusters made for the cheap audience. This movie is rich in spirit and will leave you smiling for a long time

Three People Beyond Words: Communication!.......2007-06-18

THE CUCKOO (Kukushka) is a small miracle of a film. It is not only a unique story but one that draws us into the individual lives of three strangers from different languages and backgrounds who bond in time of war because of their mutual isolation. It is at once charming, gently humorous, and deeply touching.

Taking place during WW II during the little known Russo-Finnish War, the setting is Lapland. We first encounter a Finnish student/soldier Veikko (Ville Haapasalo) being chained by the Russians to a rock in a German SS uniform as punishment for his disillusionment in the war effort, thinking that he will be killed as the enemy. In another area some Russian soldiers are transporting a Russian poet/soldier Ivan (Viktor Bychkov) condemned for his anti-Communist stance: the jeep transporting Ivan is bombed, killing the soldiers except for Ivan. Along comes a little Lapp girl Anni (Anni-Kristiina Juuso), finds the severely injured Ivan, drags him to her hut and nurses him back to health. Meanwhile Veikko ingeniously frees himself from his rock and wanders into the presence of Anni. Veikko speaks Finnish, Ivan speaks Russian and Anni (aka 'Cuckoo') speaks Sami and the three cannot understand each other's language or customs. Ivan sees Veikko as a fascist and wants to destroy him; Veikko never wanted to be in the war anyway so he pacifies Ivan; Anni is more concerned with basic physical needs (her husband has been gone four years, conscripted by the armed forces for a war she doesn't understand and she is hungry for the presence of a man in her bed!). The story explains the manner in which these three people intertwine their lives and beliefs and overcome the barriers of language to form a trio of true universal family. The war ends and the three 'bodies' separate, leaving behind indelible evidence of their transforming experiences.

Writer/director Aleksandr Rogozhkin has created a masterpiece, a film brimming with beauty of visuals, of warmly humorous exchanges of dialog understood only by each speaker, of survival and of the mystery of life beyond. The acting is superb, the cinematography is breathtaking, and the message is deeply moving. In the field of strong anti-war statements, THE CUCKOO is the most sincere. A brilliant achievement! Grady Harp, June 07

interesting, thought provoking film.......2005-12-15

The previews for this film caught my attention, so I rented it as soon as it came out. It was a very interesting and thought provoking film. How would three people with different languages and different cultures interact, especially if two of them are enemies? This film explores that question. The performances were outstanding, and the film was beautifully and artisticly done. Much of it was very funny, as the audience is let in on both what WAS being said and what was THOUGHT to be being said. One example of this is Ivan being called Gerlost as if that is his name because he is always telling Veiko to get lost. Even people who speak the same language have a hard time communicating. While this film is rated PG-13, parents of older teens ought to preview it separately so as to make an informed decision as to whether they want their older teens to see it (I wouldn't). This is because of some issues of religion and morality (to say more would give to many plot spoilers).

Very Impressive ..........2005-08-19

A very simple happenstance movie about a frustrated Russian soldier, a reluctant Finn soldier and a pastoral Sami woman. There are just the three characters in the movie and all of them speak different languages (Russian, Finnish and Sami). The Finn soldier (Veikko played by Ville Haapasalo) is a sniper (Cuckoo in military jargon) who is chained to his position in a remote outpost. His die-hard and innovative attempts to get rid of the shackles whilst complaining about the war, are simply hilarious (the actor's silent facial expressions are most impressive). The Russian soldier/prisoner (Ivan) is stranded in a foreign land and is ever suspicious. The pastoral Sami woman (Anni played by Anni-Kristiina Juuso)steals the show with her top-notch acting. Her bucolic lifestyle and simple outlook towards life is thought provoking. None of the characters in the movie can speak or understand each other's language and their interactions (mostly miscommunications) are simply hilarious.
In one of the scenes, Ivan cooks mushrooms for dinner. Anni thinks mushrooms will give Ivan a bad stomach. She prepares an infusion and (kindly) offers it to Ivan, who gladly drinks appreciating the wonderful taste. The infusion is in fact a potent laxative that takes immediate affect.

All in all a wonderful movie from Russia that reaffirms the beauty of life and the futility of war. It is also a movie about making connections by letting go of fear, suspicion and predisposed biases.

Solid performances by Anni-Kristiina Juuso & Ville Haapasalo.

Great movie with many lessons.......2005-07-29

I stumbled upon this movie on cable and am glad I did. Other reviews identify that this movie is about three people, each speaking different languages, who meet and interact. I believe, though, that this movie really portrays the dynamics of communciations on many levels. It is striking that these three people never learn each other's language but instead hold conversations based on what each one ASSUMES is being disussed.

I've likened this movie's theme to the problems I've observed (and experienced) in the communications between technical people and executives, women and men, parents and children --you name it. We make the conversation fit what we understand (and want) the purpose to be rather than really make an effort to understand what the other person is actually saying. That really IS deep.

Throw in the subtle humor and the beautiful scenery and you'll find this is a movie that makes one laugh and think- and is certainly worth watching!

Jack Nicholson Selection: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest/The Pledge/The Witches of Eastwick

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Outstanding movie, might as well buy VHS

Jack Nicholson Selection: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest/The Pledge/The Witches of Eastwick
Starring: Jack Nicholson , Louise Fletcher , William Redfield , Michael Berryman , and Peter Brocco
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Three of the legendary movies that made Jack Nicholson who he is today. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; The Pledge; Witches of Eastwick

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Outstanding movie, might as well buy VHS.......2001-07-30

First off, the rating of 4/5 doesn't mean that I don't think this to be one of the greatest movies ever made. I do, and AFI ranked it 20 out 100 ever made. In 1975 it swept the big 5 Academy Awards (picture, actor, actress, director, screenplay). The movie is a 5/5 easy.

However, the DVD is basically the VHS on a different format. The video and sound look basically the same, and the special features are nonexistent.

Buy this movie if you like the movie, Jack Nicholson, Best Picture award winners, Milos Forman's direction, or seeing actors like Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd in early roles. The movie is MORE than enough to justify the price tag, but just don't expect any of the nice little extras that DVD's like this usually come with.

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Great way to start your collection of Best Pictures

Eighteen of the best movies of all time

Best Picture Oscar Collection - fantastic present

good deal but not in collectible condition

This is a great deal; looks like they fixed the problems,,,

Best Picture Oscar Collection (18-Pack)

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Great way to start your collection of Best Pictures.......2007-02-03

This is the set of 18 Best Picture winners on DVD that Warner Home Video controlled the rights to as of Feb. 2005, and spans the time period 1929-1992. Some of them hold up over time, and others were given the award because of technical achievements that no longer seem important. I'll go through each one and give my opinion:

Broadway Melody of 1929 - This was the first "talkie" to win the award. The screenplay is a mediocre love story, but the song and dance numbers are good. There's even a musical number in Technicolor - "Wedding of the Painted Doll".

Grand Hotel - Won in 1932 and contained a great ensemble cast about the personal lives of guests in a fancy Berlin hotel. This is a great one that still is worthy viewing today.

Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) - Probably the best of all the pictures about the famous mutiny. Still good viewing today. An odd aside - all of the nominees for best actor that did not win were from this film - Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, and Charles Laughton.

The Great Ziegfield (1936) - After the Hays code was fully in effect, the personal aspects of Ziegfield's life had to be modified for the screen. Still, a great movie with a great performance by William Powell as the famous showman.

The Life of Emile Zola (1937) - One of those period pieces that just didn't grab me. It is a very skillfully done film, very artistic, and Paul Muni gives a tremendous performance in the title role. It's hard to believe the articulate and gentile Emile Zola is being portrayed by the same actor who was equally convincing in "Scarface".

Gone with the Wind (1939) - This movie charts the life of a Southern belle who always wanted what she didn't have and took for granted what she did have as she lives through the Civil War and reconstruction. It is the most popular film of all time and probably the biggest money-maker if you factor in inflation. It was shown in movie theatres until it made its TV debut in 1976.

Mrs. Miniver (1942) - This is a good film, and it has great acting, but it is one of those films that probably won because of the times. It depicts how the British coped while under seige during World War II as experienced by one British family headed by Mrs. Miniver.

Casablanca (1943) - This one probably won because of the wartime theme, but it is a great piece of moviemaking that just gets better with time. The chemistry between Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart just oozes off the screen. It's more what's not said than what is in this film. The fact that Bogart didn't win best actor was one of the great injustices of all time.

An American in Paris (1951) - Of course the point of this film not the plot, it is Gene Kelly's dancing, which is fabulous as always. It inspired the quickly thrown together and even more popular "Singin In the Rain".

Around the World in 80 Days (1956) - A fun adventure, David Niven is great, and how they got all of those stars to play bit parts I'll never know. However, it really doesn't hold up as a great movie 50 years after the fact.

Gigi (1958) - The academy award winner in the year of my birth just does not inspire today. There are a couple of good songs, but not many. Plus the screenplay is antiquated and outright campy by today's standards.

Ben-Hur (1959) - One of those great Bible-era epics of the 50's. Even though it is a story on a large scale, it is all of the small scale stories going on that make it great - revenge, love, loyalty, loss.

My Fair Lady (1964) - One of the great musicals starring Rex Harrison in one of his greatest and most amusing roles. Nobody did stuffy British low-key comedy like Rex. He was robbed when it came to best actor, but fortunately the Academy rectified the situation a few years later.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) - Jack Nicholson is a rebel confined to a mental institution. When he doesn't conform, the evil nurse Ratchett has him lobotimized. A great film that will stir emotions even today.

Chariots of Fire (1981) - I personally love this film about the 1924 Olympic games and the conflict between God, country, and conscience seen through the eyes of two men - one a Christian who wants to be a missionary, the other Jewish who wants to be an insider in British society. It's a love it or hate it kind of film - either you find the internal struggles of these men compelling, or you'll find it torture to sit through.

Amadeus (1984) - Another of the modern era Oscars where you either love the message and love the film, or it puts you to sleep. I really loved this one too, partly because Mozart has always interested me, and partly because Salieri was such a ridiculous creature thinking he could best God by destroying Mozart. Didn't he ever realize that the fact that he recognized Mozart's talent before everyone else did was a talent in itself? If you can't build Microsoft yourself, then the next best thing was to have bought stock in it in 1975.

Driving Miss Daisy (1989) - The story of a wealthy elderly woman and her driver from 1948 up to the mid-70's. In spite of the difference in their races and the place - Georgia - they have much in common and slowly become friends. She is Jewish and he is Black in a time and place that wasn't ordinarily welcoming to either group of people. This is a sentimental favorite of mine, plus there's some good comic one-liners in it too.

Unforgiven (1992) - A different kind of Western in which Clint Eastwood wins his first award for Best Director. Eastwood is out to avenge the scarring of a prostitute in return for money when the justice the sheriff metes out on the offending cowboy is just not satisfactory to the prostitute or her friends. Eastwood plays an ex-criminal widower trying to make a go of farming when this assignment lands in his lap. In the end, he doesn't have a hard time finding his "inner killer". A really great film. Who'd have thought in 1965 that Ramrod Rowdy Yates had it in him?

This package is a good value at eleven dollars per Oscar winner, especially when you consider one of those Oscar winners is Gone with the Wind. Plus it has a good sampling of Oscar winners from all genres up to 1992. Depending on how you feel about the more modern Oscar winners (post 1965) that are usually slower, more thoughtful films, you may or may not feel the same. To me the only real dud is Gigi.

Also note that if you buy this set, "Studio Classics Best Picture Collection", and the new "Best Picture Collection", you'll have 29 of the soon to be 79 best picture winners. Not a bad start on your collection.

My only real complaints are that there have been four changes that should be incorporated into the pack to really make it complete as of Spring 2007 based on what is available, although it might require a price increase.
1. Ben-Hur is now available in a 4 disc special edition that includes the silent version of the film.
2. Cimarron, Best Picture 1930-1931, was released on DVD in 2006 by Warner Home Video and should be included.
3. After this pack was released "Million Dollar Baby" and "The Departed" won Best Picture for 2004 and 2006, respectively. These films are not included.
I'm really just pointing out minor flaws because, compared to all of the other studios, Warners has done the best job of putting all of the Best Picture winners they control into one attractively priced package.

Eighteen of the best movies of all time.......2005-09-26

This set contains 18 Best Picture winners from the Warner Video library. A few of them are fairly basic, with limited extras (Broadway Melody, Grand Hotel), while others are multi-disc deluxe editions (Gone with the Wind, Ben Hur). If you're looking to get your collection off to a start, with some of the all-time classics, I haven't seen a better boxed set than this one.

Best Picture Oscar Collection - fantastic present.......2005-09-21

This made my father very happy - has all the golden favourites and is great value.

good deal but not in collectible condition.......2005-06-11

It's a bunch of oscar winning movies from warner brothers with a great discount. but collectors beware of this set :

1. First of all, most of the items are not sealed. many of them looks like new, but some are not brand new, at least look like used!
2. I talked with 3 persons who purchased this item. all of them had complains about ruptures at the edge of some boxes which had caused with a blade or a sharp instrument.
3. there is not a huge outer box. only a wrap around all items.

after those negative points, lets say that, all of the DVDs are the best releases of each item. my word is, it's a good deal but don't expect to receive all of them in collectible condition! I don't want to blame warner but it seems that some of these DVDs are clean returned to market items!

This is a great deal; looks like they fixed the problems,,,.......2005-05-28

I purchased this set when the price was $140. However, I did not get Casablanca or Cuckoo's net SE's, but after I contacted AMAZON twice and waited for a while, they corrected the problem to my full satisfaction! I have never been happier with their service!

But, this is a great set because it has 18 of the best picture winners.

It has some of the best ones, and all the discs are the top of the line editions! way to go!!!

Now, if they could opnly get the last three best picture winners on DVD, I'd have them all!

Max and Ruby - Max's Halloween/The Blue Tarantula/Ruby's Beauty Shop/Ruby's Clubhouse/Max's Cuckoo Clock/Bunny Money

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Great for small kids

Max and Ruby - Max's Halloween/The Blue Tarantula/Ruby's Beauty Shop/Ruby's Clubhouse/Max's Cuckoo Clock/Bunny Money

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Ruby wants Max to be a little Prince for Halloween but Max wants to be a Vampire. Ruby, dressed up as Cinderella, thinks Max will scare Grandma when they go trick-or-treating to her house. However, it's Ruby who gets the fright when Grandma answers the door. -Max's Halloween -The Blue Tarantula -Ruby's Beauty Shop -Ruby's Clubhouse -Max's Cuckoo Clock -Bunny Money

Customer Reviews:

Great for small kids.......2006-08-05

My grandchildren love the Max & Ruby DVD's. They are educational and relaxing, great to watch before nap or bedtime.

Best Picture Oscar Collection - Adventures (Ben-Hur / Around the World in 80 Days / One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / Mutiny on the Bounty / Unforgiven)

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Single disc is a no-no for two movies out of five

Best Picture Oscar Collection - Adventures (Ben-Hur / Around the World in 80 Days / One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / Mutiny on the Bounty / Unforgiven)
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Best Picture Oscar Collection - Drama (Amadeus/Casablanca Special Edition/Driving Miss Daisy/The Life of Emile Zola/Mrs. Miniver)
Studio Classics - Best Picture Collection (Sunrise / How Green Was My Valley / Gentleman's Agreement / All About Eve)
The Deer Hunter (Universal Legacy Series)
Hello, Dolly!
Casablanca

ASIN: B0006V6TOY
Release Date: 2005-02-08

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Single disc is a no-no for two movies out of five.......2005-02-15

All the dvd's here if bought individually would amount to far more than is sold at this price. All the dvds are also excellent quality and in the case of Around the World in 80 Days it is even the 2 disc special edition. The one bad thing about this set and the only bad thing probably is the dvd of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest which is the single disc edition with widescreen and full format on two sides, this is disappointing considering there is a very nice 2 disc special edition available and could easily have been included in the set. There is also an Unforgiven 2 disc special edition which also is replaced in this set by the single disc version. Therefore if you care about having such things as "special features" than I suggest you not buy this set. However if you love collecting movies than this and the 2 other Warner Brother's oscar collection sets (drama, and musicals) is a must for you.

Charlie Rose with Tom Stoppard; Gary Sinise (March 27, 2001)

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Charlie Rose with Tom Stoppard; Gary Sinise (March 27, 2001)

Manufacturer: Charlie Rose, Inc.
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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The Tony Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard speaks about the Broadway debut of his play about the poet and Latin scholar A.E. Housman, The Invention of Love. Also, actor Gary Sinise talks about his performance in the Broadway production of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Vintage Bird Films DVD w/ the Vulture, Eagle Owl, Falcon, Hawk & Cuckoo Birds

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Vintage Bird Films DVD w/ the Vulture, Eagle Owl, Falcon, Hawk & Cuckoo Birds

Manufacturer: Quality Information Publishers, Inc.
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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(1) Birds of Prey (1938)
(2) The Cuckoo (1942)

ASIN: B000ISZD92

Product Description

Amazing film about birds of prey found in the U.S., specifically the owl and the cuckoo. Incredible vintage footage of these birds in their natural habitat makes these beautiful documentaries come to life. These films were some of the first nature documentaries ever made and remain a great educational resource to this day. Running time is 20 minutes. TABLE OF CONTENTS: (1) Birds of Prey (1938) - Classic study of owls, vultures, hawks and eagles, with informative narration. Delightful black and white footage of the owls especially. 10:13 running time (2) The Cuckoo (1942) - This brilliant, black and white silent film explains the strange and bizarre mating habits of the cuckoo. 10:37 running time

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THE CUCKOO CRYING BLOOD

Manufacturer: Guangzhou Beauty Culture Communication Co.Ltd
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
ASIN: B000OYNTQY
Release Date: 2007-03-27

Description

There was a flood in Henan 1932, an orphan Xiao Juanzi begged from his hometown to the mountain area. Xu Qiang's mother felt a pity for her and took her home. Several years later she got married with Xu Qiang who was the leader of the self-defense team. A

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