One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

11/19/1975 (US) • 2h 13m

Drama

If he's crazy, what does that make you?

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

Jack Nicholson

Randle Patrick McMurphy

Brad Dourif

Billy Bibbit

Louise Fletcher

Nurse Mildred Ratched

William Redfield

Dale Harding

Scatman Crothers

Orderly Turkle

Will Sampson

Chief Bromden

Dean R. Brooks

Dr. John Spivey


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$3,000,000.00

Revenue

$108,981,275.00

Keywords

mentally disabled

friendship

based on novel or book

nurse

lunatic asylum

insane asylum

oregon, usa

hospital

medication

female villain

shock treatment

informative

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