One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Film), released 1975 — adapted from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.
Chief Bromden, a gigantic Euro-Indigenous American patient at a psychiatric hospital, who presents himself as deaf, mute, and docile. Bromden's tale focuses mainly on the antics of tale focuses mainly on the antics of the rebellious Randle Patrick McMurphy, a petty criminal who, 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.
Starring Jack Nicholson, Brad Dourif, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito, William Redfield.
Directed by Miloš Forman.
