'Cuckoo's Nest' Blu-ray Re-Release In September

There have only been three movies to capture Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Director, and Screenplay at the Academy Awards: It Happened One Night, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and Silence of the Lambs. And a brand new Blu-ray for Cuckoo's Nest is due out on September 14th. Click to see the full cover. According to DVD Active, the Blu-ray will retail for $50 and the DVD is going for $40, and will include a whole bunch of new stuff. A full-length documentary called Completely Cuckoo will feature director Miloš Forman, producers Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz, some unearthed deleted scenes, playing cards, pre-production correspondence, some trivia, posters, and more. It's all because the movie turns 35 years old this year, November, in fact. Although he received Oscar nominations in the two previous years, Cuckoo's Nest was his first win, and it gave Jack Nicholson permanent membership among the biggest movie stars on the planet, which he doubly exploited by becoming the most nominated male actor in the history of Oscars. Michael Douglas was not really taken seriously at this point of his career, and really, this didn't do the trick, either; it wasn't until Romancing the Stone that he turned into a box office draw of any note. And as a producer, the role for which he won his Oscar for Cuckoo's Nest, his career has been really spotty. But for one moment in 1975, a rising actor and a first-time producer paired with a mostly unheralded actress (Louise Fletcher) and a Czech film director who had only made one other movie in the US, and it all came together beautifully.