One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
"In this clean, orderly, disciplined world, who needs guys like McMurphy? Everybody."
Drama
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.
🎬 DirectorMiloš Forman
📅 Release1975-11-19
🌍 CountryUnited States of America
🗣 LanguageEnglish
🏢 StudioFantasy Films
🗳 Votes11,452
🔥 Popularity14
💰 Budget$3,000,000
💵 Revenue$108,981,275
🎭 Cast
Jack Nicholson
Randle Patrick McMurphy
Brad Dourif
Billy Bibbit
Louise Fletcher
Nurse Mildred Ratched
Danny DeVito
Martini
William Redfield
Dale Harding
Scatman Crothers
Orderly Turkle
Christopher Lloyd
Max Taber
Will Sampson
Chief Bromden
Dean R. Brooks
Dr. John Spivey
Michael Berryman
Ellis
Sydney Lassick
Charlie Cheswick
William Duell
Jim Sefelt
Vincent Schiavelli
Bruce Fredrickson
Peter Brocco
Col. Matterson
Alonzo Brown
Miller
🎥 Crew
Editor
Lynzee Klingman
Stunts
Alan Gibbs
Editor
Sheldon Kahn
Producer
Michael Douglas
Sound Editor
Pat Jackson
Novel
Ken Kesey
Director
Miloš Forman
Casting
Jane Feinberg
Casting
Mike Fenton
Director of Photography
Haskell Wexler
🖼 Gallery
🏷 Keywords
mentally disabledfriendshipbased on novel or booknurselunatic asylumaffectationinsane asylumoregon, usahospitalmedicationfemale villainshock treatment
💬 Reviews
**Subject to the silliest of internet theories** There are a lot of movie theories but the silliest of all is this nonsense that is all over the internet claiming that _the Chief killed the unresponsive McMurphy because he thought McMurphy was ignoring him._ These idiots claim the Chief did not notice the scars on McMurphy's head and simply thought the unresponsive McMurphy was ignoring him…
***The spirit of freedom vs. the spirit of legal-ism*** Set in the early 60s, the story involves R.P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) and his arrival at a mental institution in Salem, Oregon (where the film was shot). He plays the "mental illness" card to get out of prison time, thinking it'll be a piece of cake, but he's wrong, very wrong. Everything appears well at the hospital and Nurse Ratched (L…
_One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest_ tells the story of a criminal, Randle Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), who pleads insanity in the attempt to get a more lenient sentence. Sent to a mental hospital, he livens up the otherwise monotonous lives of the patients, much to the ire of the strict head nurse, Mildred Ratched (Louise Fletcher). _One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest_ clean swept the Oscars i…
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