When Randle Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) gets transferred for evaluation from a prison farm to a mental institution, he assumes it will be a less restrictive environment. But the martinet Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) runs the psychiatric ward with an iron fist, keeping her patients cowed through abuse, medication and sessions of electroconvulsive therapy. The battle of wills between the rebellious McMurphy and the inflexible Ratched soon affects all the ward's patients.
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Film Credits
Director: Milos Forman
Producer: Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Brad Dourif, William Redfield, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco, Dean Brooks, Alonzo Brown, Scatman Crothers, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, Nathan George, Sydney Lassick, Phil Roth and Vincent Schiavelli