Search results
Find trailers, reviews, synopsis, awards and cast information for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) - Milos Forman on AllMovie - With an insane asylum standing in for everyday…
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. “Jack Nicholson stars in an outstanding characterization of Ken Kesey's asylum anti-hero, McMurphy, and Milos Forman's direction of a superbly-cast film is equally meritorious. After being convicted of the statutory rape of a 15-year-old girl, Randle McMurphy pretends to be insane in order to avoid prison.
Ken Kesey was American writer, who gained world fame with his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962, filmed 1975). In the 1960s, Kesey became a counterculture hero and a guru of psychedelic drugs with Timothy Leary. Kesey has been called the Pied Piper, who changed the beat generation into the hippie movement.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest tells the story of a criminal, Randle Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), who pleads insanity in the attempt to get a more lenient sentence. Sent to a mental hospital, he livens up the otherwise monotonous lives of the patients, much to the ire of the strict head nurse, Mildred Ratched (Louise Fletcher).
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. McMurphy is a two-bit crook who, facing a jail sentence, feigns insanity to be sentenced to a cushy mental hospital. However, his plan backfires when the hospital turns out to be anything but cushy, with its oppressive routines and a tyrannical head nurse who is out to quash any vestige of the patients' personal ...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Randle Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) is a free-spirited, small-time convict who fakes being crazy so he can get transferred from the state penitentiary to what he thinks will be a more comfortable state mental hospital. But his contagious sense of delightful chaos clashes with the numbing routine of the ...
Ken Kesey wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest as a part of the Beats literary movement, one which rejected conventional social norms and protested the government’s lack of concern for certain neglected categories of society: the insane, the criminal, the homeless, etc. as well as the government’s intervention in The Vietnam War (1955-1975) because of its commitment to abolish communism ...
