In this clean, orderly, disciplined world, who needs guys like McMurphy? Everybody.
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.
Directed by: Miloš Forman
Written by: Ken Kesey, Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman
Music by: Jack Nitzsche
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Brad Dourif, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito, William Redfield, Scatman Crothers, Christopher Lloyd, Will Sampson, Dean R. Brooks, Michael Berryman
Genre: Drama
Released: 1975-11-19
Runtime: 135 minutes
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