Story Line
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.
“In this clean, orderly, disciplined world, who needs guys like McMurphy? Everybody.”
Top Cast
Jack Nicholson
Randle Patrick McMurphy
Brad Dourif
Billy Bibbit
Louise Fletcher
Nurse Mildred Ratched
Danny DeVito
Martini
William Redfield
Dale Harding
Scatman Crothers
Orderly Turkle
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Rating
8.4/ 10
Release Date
1975-11-19
Runtime
2h 13m
Genres
Drama
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User Reviews (4)
Charles Dance
8/10
•2/17/2017**Subject to the silliest of internet theories**
There are a lot of movie theories but the silliest of all is this nonsense that is all over the internet claiming that _the Chief killed the unresponsive McMurphy because he thought McMurphy was ign...
Wuchak
9/10
•2/13/2020***The spirit of freedom vs. the spirit of legal-ism***
Set in the early 60s, the story involves R.P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) and his arrival at a mental institution in Salem, Oregon (where the film was shot). He plays the "mental illness" card ...
wizzardss
8/10
•2/25/2021_One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest_ tells the story of a criminal, Randle Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), who pleads insanity in the attempt to get a more lenient sentence. Sent to a mental hospital, he livens up the otherwise monotonous lives of th...
CinemaSerf
8/10
•3/12/2025“McMurphy” (Jack Nicholson) is a veteran with an attitude who has pled insanity to escape his latest court appearance on a charge of statutory rape. He is sent to an evaluation hospital where they are to decide just what, if anything, is wrong with h...