One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

2 conversations · 5.2h

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1975 · Drama · 2h 15m

Budget $3M · Box office $109M

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.

Director Miloš Forman

Writers Lawrence Hauben , Bo Goldman

Cinematography Haskell Wexler

Jack Nicholson

Randle Patrick McMurphy

Brad Dourif

Billy Bibbit

Louise Fletcher

Nurse Mildred Ratched

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