One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a 1975 American drama film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the 1962 novel by Ken Kesey. The film stars Jack Nicholson as Randle McMurphy, a new patient at a mental institution, and features a supporting cast of Louise Fletcher, Will Sampson, Sydney Lassick, William Redfield while being the film debut for Christopher Lloyd, Danny DeVito and Brad Dourif. It was the second to win all five major Academy Awards following It Happened One Night in 1934, an accomplishment not repeated until 1991 with The Silence of the Lambs.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a 1975 American drama film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the 1962 novel by Ken Kesey. The film stars Jack Nicholson as Randle McMurphy, a new patient at a mental institution, and features a supporting cast of Louise Fletcher, Will Sampson, Sydney Lassick, William Redfield while being the film debut for Christopher Lloyd, Danny DeVito and Brad Dourif. It was the second to win all five major Academy Awards following It Happened One Night in 1934, an accomplishment not repeated until 1991 with The Silence of the Lambs. 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 is No. 33 on the American Film Institute’s 100 Years… 100 Movies list. 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. In 1963, Randle Patrick McMur Murphy is serving a prison sentence for assault and statutory rape of a 15-year-old girl. He gets himself transferred to the mental institution to avoid hard labor. He steals a school bus, escaping with several patients to go fishing on the Pacific Ocean Coast, encouraging his fellow patients to discover their own abilities and find self-confidence. In the hospital, he finds the ward is being dominated by head nurse Mildred Ratched, a cold, passive-aggressive tyrant who uses her authority to intimidate her patients.
The other patients include anxious, stuttering Billy Bibbit; Charlie Cheswick, who is prone to childish tantrums; delusional and innocent Martini; the articulate, repressed homosexual Dale Harding; belligerent and profane Max Taber; epileptics Jim Sefelt and Bruce Fredrickson, the former of whom gives his medicine to the latter; quiet but violent-minded Scanlon; Chief Bromden, a very tall Native American deaf-mute; and several others with chronic conditions. After being subjected to electroconvulsive therapy, McMurMurphy returns to the ward pretending to be brain damaged. He and Chief make plans to escape, but decide to throw a secret Christmas party for their friends after Ratched and the orderlies leave for the night. After the party, Chief prepares to escape with them, but asks for a date with Billy, but Billy refuses to have sex with him. When she threatens to tell his mother, Billy reverts under pressure and reverts to his stutter. Chief arrives in the morning to find the ward in disarray and most of the patients passed out. McMurmurphy falls asleep instead of making his escape with Chief, and he and the others get drunk and escape with the others. After this, Chief and the other patients pass out under the pressure and pass out in front of everyone, and the most of them pass out too.
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