Movie
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975R2h 15m8.4 / 10
In this clean, orderly, disciplined world, who needs guys like McMurphy? Everybody.
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
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Synopsis
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
Cast, crew and production details
About One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Cast
Jack NicholsonRandle Patrick McMurphy
Brad DourifBilly Bibbit
Louise FletcherNurse Mildred Ratched
Danny DeVitoMartini
William RedfieldDale Harding
Scatman CrothersOrderly Turkle
Christopher LloydMax Taber
Will SampsonChief BromdenCredits
- Directed by
- Miloš Forman
- Written by
- Bo Goldman, Lawrence Hauben, Ken Kesey
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $3M
- Box office
- $109M
Production
- Fantasy FilmsUnited States
Themes
affectationbased on novel or bookbriskderisivefemale villainfriendshiphospitalinformativeinsane asylumlunatic asylummedical dramamedicationmentally disablednurse
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