One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

About One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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.

Miloš Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 drama film. Released in November 1975, it runs 135 minutes.

Jack Nicholson takes the lead as Randle Patrick McMurphy, Brad Dourif as Billy Bibbit, Louise Fletcher as Nurse Mildred Ratched, and Danny DeVito as Martini. Written by Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben. It was produced by Fantasy Films. The story is adapted from a novel.

Members will find affectation, nurse, informative, and psychological drama in it.

Patch Adams, The Good Nurse, and Forrest Gump make useful companions to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, all filed under hospital and medical drama. It scores 8.4 out of 10 from 11,931 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.