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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

In this clean, orderly, disciplined world, who needs guys like McMurphy? Everybody.

19 November 1975 · 2h 15mDrama

★ 8.4 / 10 · 11,888 votes on TMDB

Directed by Miloš Forman

What it's about

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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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

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