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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Film · 1975 · 135 min · R · Drama

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

Starring Jack Nicholson, Brad Dourif, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito, William Redfield, Scatman Crothers, Christopher Lloyd, Will Sampson

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In cinemas19 November 1975
Digital releaseNot listed
Physical release17 December 1997
First release anywhere19 November 1975

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