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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Drama

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

Release Date: 1975, November 19
Directors: Miloš Forman
Countries: United States of America
Production: Fantasy Films
Cast: Christopher Lloyd, Brad Dourif, Anjelica Huston, Jack Nicholson, Scatman Crothers, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito, William Redfield, Will Sampson, Dean R. Brooks, Michael Berryman, Sydney Lassick

Overview:

Chief Bromden, a gigantic Euro-Indigenous American patient at a psychiatric hospital, who presents himself as deaf, mute, and docile. Bromden's tale focuses mainly on the antics of tale focuses mainly on the antics of the rebellious Randle Patrick McMurphy, a petty criminal who, 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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