One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Name: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Released: 1975
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Brad Dourif, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito, William Redfield

• Movies, Drama

• 133 min

8.4

If he's crazy, what does that make you?

Directed by: Miloš Forman
Casting: Jack Nicholson, Brad Dourif, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito, William Redfield, Scatman Crothers, Christopher Lloyd, Will Sampson, Dean R. Brooks, Michael Berryman, Sydney Lassick, William Duell, Vincent Schiavelli, Peter Brocco, Alonzo Brown, Mwako Cumbuka, Josip Elic, Ken Kenny, Nathan George, Ted Markland, Louisa Moritz, Mews Small, Delos V. Smith Jr., Lan Fendors, Mimi Sarkisian, Mel Lambert, Kay Lee, Dwight Marfield, Tin Welch, Philip Roth, Aurore Clément, Anjelica Huston, Audrey Landers, Saul Zaentz
Countries: United States of America
Premiere: 1975-11-19
Status: Released

Tags: mentally disabled, friendship, based on novel or book, nurse, lunatic asylum, insane asylum, oregon, usa, hospital, medication, female villain, shock treatment, informative

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.