Film

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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

8.4

2h 13m

1975

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

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.

Director

Miloš Forman

Trailer

Drama

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