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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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

8.4/ 1019752h 15mR

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.

Directed by Miloš Forman

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The cast

Faces behind the story

Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson

Randle Patrick McMurphy

Brad Dourif

Brad Dourif

Billy Bibbit

Louise Fletcher

Louise Fletcher

Nurse Mildred Ratched

Danny DeVito

Danny DeVito

Martini

William Redfield

William Redfield

Dale Harding

Scatman Crothers

Scatman Crothers

Orderly Turkle

Christopher Lloyd

Christopher Lloyd

Max Taber

Will Sampson

Will Sampson

Chief Bromden