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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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

1975 · R · 2h 15m

Directed by Miloš Forman

8.4

TMDB audience score
11,944 votes, out of 10

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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.

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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

  • Sydney Lassick
    Charlie Cheswick

  • William Duell
    Jim Sefelt

  • Vincent Schiavelli
    Bruce Fredrickson

  • Peter Brocco
    Col. Matterson

  • Alonzo Brown
    Miller

  • Mwako Cumbuka
    Warren

  • Josip Elic
    Bancini

  • Ken Kenny
    Beans Garfield