ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST

The counterculture embraced this allegory of individualism versus the establishment, which, as a film, gave Jack Nicholson one of his more memorable roles. Cowed by sadistic Nurse Ratched, the inmates of a mental hospital are galvanized by a new patient, the free-spirited McMurphy, who enters a pitched battle of wills with the nurse. Narrator Tom Parker does a workmanlike, if somewhat detached, job; his tone nicely mirrors the iconoclasm in his text but doesn’t quite nail the personality of the first-person narrator. Y.R. ©AudioFile, Portland, Maine [Published: AUG/SEP 98]