One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Jack Nicholson R P McMurphy Louise Fletcher Nurse Ratched William Redfield Harding Dean R. Brooks Dr Spivey Scatman Crothers Turkle Danny DeVito Martini William Duell Sefelt Brad Dourif Billy Bibbit Sydney Lassick Cheswick Christopher Lloyd Taber Will Sampson Chief Bromden Vincent Schiavelli Fredrickson Delos V. Smith Jr Scanlon Marya Small Candy Louisa Moritz (II) Rose Mimi Sarkisian Nurse Pilbow Nathan George (II) Washington Michael Berryman Ellis Peter Brocco Col Matterson Alonzo Brown (III) Miller Mwako Cumbuka Warren Josip Elic Bancini Lan Fendors Nurse Itsu Ken Kenny Beans Garfield Directed by: Milos Forman Produced by: Saul Zaentz, Michael Douglas, Martin Fink A new and rebellious patient is brought to a small mental institution where his antics endear the other patients to him and incur the wrath of the stern and repressive nurse who runs their ward. ================= McMurphy thinks he can get out of doing work while in prison by pretending to be mad. His plan backfires when he is sent to a mental asylum. He tries to liven the place up a bit by playing card games and basketball with his fellow inmates, but the head nurse is after him at every turn. ================= McMurphy, a man with several assault convictions to his name, finds himself in jail once again. This time, the charge is statutory rape when it turns out that his girlfriend had lied about being eighteen, and was, in fact, fifteen (or, as McMurphy puts it, "fifteen going on thirty-five"). Rather than spend his time in jail, he convinces the guards that he's crazy enough to need psychiatric care and is sent to a hospital. He fits in frighteningly well, and his different point of view actually begins to cause some of the patients to progress. Nurse Ratched becomes his personal cross to bear as his resistance to the hospital routine gets on her nerves.