麦克墨菲(杰克·尼科尔森 Jack Nicholson 饰)为了逃避监狱里的强制劳动,装作精神异常,被送进了精神病院,他的到来,给死气沉沉的精神病院带来了剧烈的冲击。 麦克要求看棒球比赛的电视转播,挑战了医院严格的管理制度,受到护士长拉契特(路易丝·弗莱彻 Louise Fletcher 饰)的百般阻挠;麦克带领病人出海捕鱼,振奋了他们的精神,却让院方头痛不已。院方为了惩处麦克胆大妄为、屡犯院规,决定将他永远留在疯人院。生性自由的麦克再也无法忍受疯人院的生活,他联合病友,高大的印第安人“酋长”,开始自己的计划:飞越疯人院。 本片获1975年第48届奥斯卡最佳影片,最佳男、女主角,最佳导演和最佳改编剧本五项大奖。主人公“不自由,毋宁死”的精神在当今社会仍有很大的现实意义。
Darío lives in the USA and is estranged from his father and brothers. He decides to travel to his country to attend his sister's wedding, where he sees his opportunity to rebuild his family ties. But his plan changes when he finds out that his father has died.
Fluent in ten languages including two dead ones, Julie Walters, considered the brightest mind in the Department, is just months away from obtaining a Ph.D. in Ancient Languages, after which she hopes to get a job at the Museum of Natural History, where she's wanted to work since she was a child. Her path hits a roadblock when she is informed that all funding has been pulled from the Department for student services, including employment and financing, her sole sources of education funding. With no museum jobs to be had which would be her first choice as a replacement, Julie decides to offer private language lessons instead. Her first students, seniors couple Rose and Earl Williams, decide to buy French lessons for their son Dan, who is in a long distance relationship with a Parisienne, Cosette, they solely communicating in their common language of English. Upon first sight, Julie discovers her new student is one of the assistant curators at the museum with who she had earlier had a somewhat awkward discussion regarding she potentially working there. Busy Dan, reluctant to enter into the lessons, is more practical than romantic in his relationships, he dealing with Cosette solely in those areas common to the two of them, namely in English and around museums, she who works at one in Paris, which is how they originally met. In believing one learns better if it applies to them, Julie ends up also coaching Dan in how to be more romantic in how it would apply to Cosette, he eventually discovering that she would like him to exhibit that side of himself to her. As Julie starts to fall for Dan, and it seems he for her, their path forward may hit the further roadblocks of Cosette, and of her goal of working at the museum.—Huggo