One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Name: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Director: Miloš Forman
Genre: Drama
Released: 1975

Miloš Forman • 135 min • 1975

Drama

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

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Synopsis

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.