One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
(1975)
Director:
Miloš Forman
Writer:
Ken Kesey, Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman, Dale Wasserman
Cast:
Jack Nicholson, Brad Dourif, Louise Fletcher
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.