![]() McMurphy finds himself in a battle of wills against Ratched. Ratched sees McMurphy's lively, rebellious presence as a threat to her authority, which she responds to by confiscating and rationing the patients' cigarettes and suspending their card-playing privileges. The other patients include young, anxious, stuttering Billy Bibbit Charlie Cheswick, who is prone to temper tantrums delusional, child-like Martini the articulate, repressed homosexual Dale Harding belligerent and profane Max Taber epileptics Jim Sefelt and Bruce Fredrickson quiet but violent-minded Scanlon tall, deaf-mute Native American "Chief" Bromden and several others with chronic conditions. The ward is dominated by head nurse Mildred Ratched, a cold, passive-aggressive tyrant who intimidates her patients. He pretends to be insane in order to get himself transferred to a mental institution and avoid hard labor. In the autumn of 1963, Randle McMurphy is on an Oregon work farm for the statutory rape of a 15-year-old girl. ![]() In 1993, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress, and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. It also won numerous Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards. The film was the second to win all five major Academy Awards ( Best Picture, Actor in Lead Role, Actress in Lead Role, Director, and Screenplay) following It Happened One Night in 1934, an accomplishment not repeated until 1991 with The Silence of the Lambs. 33 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years. Considered by many to be one of the greatest films ever made, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is No. The hospital is still in operation (as of 2022), though the original buildings seen in the film have been demolished. The producers decided to shoot the film in the Oregon State Hospital, an actual mental hospital, as this was also the setting of the novel. It also features a supporting cast of Will Sampson, Danny DeVito, Sydney Lassick, William Redfield, as well as Christopher Lloyd and Brad Dourif in their film debuts.įilming began in January 1975 and lasted three months, taking place on location in Salem, Oregon, and the surrounding area, as well as Depoe Bay on the north Oregon coast. The film stars Jack Nicholson who plays a new patient at a mental institution alongside Louise Fletcher who plays an austere nurse. ![]() ![]() One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American psychological comedy drama film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey. ![]()
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