Watch One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Free Online

Release Date: 1975

Cast: Josip Elic, Scatman Crothers, Danny DeVito, Sydney Lassick, Brad Dourif, Will Sampson, Saul Zaentz, William Redfield, Nathan George, Vincent Schiavelli, Christopher Lloyd, Jack Nicholson ...MORE

Cast: Josip Elic, Scatman Crothers, Danny DeVito, Sydney Lassick, Brad Dourif, Will Sampson, Saul Zaentz, William Redfield, Nathan George, Vincent Schiavelli, Christopher Lloyd, Jack Nicholson, Mwako Cumbuka, Anjelica Huston, Louise Fletcher, Lan Fendors, Peter Brocco, Dean R. Brooks, William Duell, Alonzo Brown, Michael Berryman ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Comedy, Tragicomedy, Tragedy, Drama Film, Existentialism, Film Adaptation, Indie, Comedy-Drama

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American drama film directed by Miloš Forman and based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey. 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 by The Silence of the Lambs. The film is #20 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years... 100 Movies list. It was shot at Oregon State Hospital in Salem, Oregon, which was also the setting of the novel. In 1963 Oregon,... MORE

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American drama film directed by Miloš Forman and based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey. 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 by The Silence of the Lambs. The film is #20 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years... 100 Movies list. It was shot at Oregon State Hospital in Salem, Oregon, which was also the setting of the novel. In 1963 Oregon, Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), a recidivist anti-authoritarian criminal serving a short sentence on a prison farm for statutory rape of a 15-year-old girl, is transferred to a mental institution for evaluation. Although he does not show any overt signs of mental illness, he hopes to avoid hard labor and serve the rest of his sentence in a more relaxed hospital environment. McMurphy's ward is run by steely, unyielding Nurse Mildred Ratched (Louise Fletcher), who employs subtle humiliation, unpleasant medical treatments and a mind-numbing daily routine to suppress the patients. McMurphy finds that LESS