The read
Every source lands within 8 points of the others, across 12,000 audience votes. Scores higher than 97% of the 1,101 1970s drama movies in this catalog.
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.
Ratings
IMDb8.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes92%
Metacritic84/100
11,723 audience votes
Key crew
- Miloš FormanDirector
- Lawrence HaubenScreenplay
- Jack NitzscheOriginal Music Composer
- Bo GoldmanScreenplay
Cast
- Jack NicholsonRandle Patrick McMurphy
- Brad DourifBilly Bibbit
- Louise FletcherNurse Mildred Ratched
- Danny DeVitoMartini
- William RedfieldDale Harding
- Scatman CrothersOrderly Turkle
- Christopher LloydMax Taber
- Will SampsonChief Bromden
- Dean R. BrooksDr. John Spivey
- Michael BerrymanEllis
- Sydney LassickCharlie Cheswick
- William DuellJim Sefelt
Stills
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Themes
mentally disabledfriendshipbased on novel or booknurselunatic asylumaffectationinsane asylumoregon, usahospitalmedicationfemale villainshock treatment
The Best Movies of 1975
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is #2 of 60
