One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
1975 | Drama | USA | Directed by Milos Forman
Overview
McMurphy fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a ward and collides with Nurse Ratched, who runs therapy like a sentence of her own. Nicholson at maximum charm and menace, and Fletcher at quiet steel. Only the second film to sweep the five major Oscars. The lobotomy ending landed like a body blow in 1975 and still does.
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