One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (movie)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Directed by	Miloš Forman
Written by	Bo Goldman; Laurence Hauben; From the book by Ken Kesey
Produced by	Michael Douglas; Saul Zaentz
Starring	Jack Nicholson; Louise Fletcher; Brad Dourif
Cinematography	Haskell Wexler; Bill Butler
Edited by	Sheldon Kahn; Lynzee Klingman
Music by	Jack Nitzsche
Production; companies	Fantasy Films; N. V. Zwaluv
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	November 19, 1975
Running time	133 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$4.4 million

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American drama movie based on Ken Kesey's novel of the same name, directed by Miloš Forman and starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher. It is set on a locked psychiatric ward in 1963 Oregon which is run by the tyrannical Nurse Ratched (Fletcher) and where the new patient Randle McMurphy (Nicholson) rebels against her. It was the first movie to win all five main Academy Awards since It Happened One Night. These awards included Best Picture, Best Actor (Nicholson), Best Actress (Fletcher), Best Director (Forman), and Best Adapted Screenplay. The movie was the 20th best ever, according to the American Film Industry's AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies list. The screenplay was also nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay. The novel's writer, Kesey, disliked the movie, because it did not take the perspective (view) of a Native American character, Chief Bromden (a more important character in the book than in the movie).

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