Want to know the best Louise Fletcher movies?  How about the worst Louise Fletcher movies?  Curious about Louise Fletcher box office grosses or which Louise Fletcher movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Louise Fletcher movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well, you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Louise Fletcher (1934-2022) was an Oscar® winning American actress and writer.  Fletcher is best known for her Oscar® winning role as Nurse Ratched in 1975’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.  On AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Heroes & Villains list, her Nurse Ratched is ranked 5th on the villain list.  Her IMDb page shows 136 acting and credits from 1958 to 2017.  This page will rank Louise Fletcher movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.  To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences, and get some award recognition.

Louise Fletcher Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Year	Movie (Year)	Rating	S
Year	Movie (Year)	Rating	S
1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) AA Best Picture Win AA Best Actress Win
1978	The Cheap Detective (1978)
1992	The Player (1992)
1984	Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
1999	Cruel Intentions (1999)
1977	Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
1963	A Gathering of Eagles (1963)
1974	Thieves Like Us (1974)
1994	On Deadly Ground (1994)
1983	Brainstorm (1983)
1986	The Boy Who Could Fly (1986)
1996	Mulholland Falls (1996)
1996	2 Days in the Valley (1996)
2000	Big Eden (2000)
1987	Flowers in the Attic (1987)
1984	Firestarter (1984)
1999	A Map of the World (1999)
1999	The Devil's Arithmetic (1999) Showtime Movies
1979	The Lady In Red (1979)
1979	Natural Enemies (1979)
2005	Aurora Borealis (2005)
1989	Best of the Best (1989)
1989	Blue Steel (1989)
1996	High School High (1996)
1995	Virtuosity (1995)
2000	Very Mean Men (2000)
1982	Talk To Me (1982) Film Festival Circuit Only
1983	Strange Invaders (1983)
1975	Russian Roulette (1975)
2003	Finding Home (2003)
2002	Manna from Heaven (2002)
1986	Nobody's Fool (1986)
1997	Breast Men (1997) HBO Movie
2011	Cassadaga (2011)
1997	Gone Fishin' (1997)
1988	Two Moon Junction (1988)
2007	The Last Sin Eater (2007)
1979	The Magician of Lublin (1979)
1986	Invaders From Mars (1986)
2013	A Perfect Man (2013)

Louise Fletcher Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies any way you want.

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• Sort Louise Fletcher movies by how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
• Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Louise Fletcher movie received.
• Sort Louise Fletcher movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Best IMDb Trivia On Louise Fletcher

1. Estelle Louise Fletcher was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1934.

2.  Louise Fletcher made her film debut in 1963’s  A Gathering of Eagles.   After filming A Gathering of Eagles, Fletcher took a decade-long hiatus from acting in which she raised a family.

3.  Louise Fletcher learned sign language at a very young age, as both of her parents were deaf. When Fletcher neared the end of her (spoken) Best Actress Oscar® acceptance speech for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), she finished with a unique (unspoken) touch in American Sign Language: “For my mother and my father, I want to say thank you for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true. Thank you.”

4.  Louise Fletcher’s role in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) had been turned down by Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Colleen Dewhurst and Jane Fonda.

5. Louise Fletcher was in several scenes that were deleted from Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America (1984) theatrical release.  Those scenes are included in the superior Sergio Leone Director’s Cut.

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