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In her piece, NYT Op-Ed writer Maureen Dowd lets McCain stick up for himself against "whispered insinuations from Republicans, including some George W. Bush supporters, that his years in Vietcong dungeons, which included two suicide attempts, drove him cuckoo."
She has been practicing for this inevitable terrible event lately, scoring Elizabeth Dole as Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , admitting to a fondness for John McCain, and having great fun at the expense of Al Gore and George W. Bush, the two scions likely to fight it out in 2000.
The plot rips off the familiar one-on-one mind games of The Silence of the Lambs and adds up to nothing more than "a greatest-hits collection of plot devices and emotional cues from such films as Gorillas in the Mist and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest " (John Anderson, the Los Angeles Times ). (Click here to watch the trailer, and for David Edelstein's review in
Although many note that this is "a junior-league One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest " (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ) and that the film lapses into trite battles between patients and hospital staff, the film stays mainly on target, at its best when displaying its "meticulous, true-to-life portrait of a time (the late 1960's) and place (the hothouse world of upper-middle-class Boston suburbia)" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). (Click here to visit the official site.)
One Flu Over the Cuckoo's Nest