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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American psychological drama film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. The film stars Jack Nicholson as a new patient at a mental institution, alongside Louise Fletcher as a sadistic nurse.
Nov 19, 1975 · With Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco, Dean R. Brooks, Alonzo Brown. In the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.
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- Drama
- Milos Forman
- 1975-11-19
The movie, directed by Miloš Forman and starring Jack Nicholson, was the first film since It Happened One Night (1934) to win the Academy Awards for best picture, director, lead actor, lead actress, and screenplay.
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Lawrence Hauben. Screenplay. Dale Wasserman. Theatre Play. 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.
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Drama. Premiere: 19th November 1975, Los Angeles and New York, USA. Runtime: 129 min. Language: English. © 1975 The Saul Zaentz Company. “Jack Nicholson stars in an outstanding characterization of Ken Kesey's asylum anti-hero, McMurphy, and Milos Forman's direction of a superbly-cast film is equally meritorious. (A. D. Murphy, Variety, 2008)
