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Box office. $163.3 million [3] One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American psychological drama film [4] directed by Miloš Forman, based on the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. The film stars Jack Nicholson as a new patient at a mental institution, alongside Louise Fletcher as the domineering head nurse.
Nurse Ratched (full name Mildred Ratched in the movie, also known as "Big Nurse") is a fictional character and the main antagonist of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, first featured in Ken Kesey's 1962 novel as well as the 1975 film adaptation.
Jul 10, 2018 · In 1975, Louise Fletcher stunned as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. With Ryan Murphy’s forthcoming series set to carve out her character’s backstory, Fletcher reveals the ...
Sep 21, 2020 · On Oscar night 1976, Milos Forman's drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest cemented its place in the zeitgeist. An adaptation of Ken Kesey's powerful novel about patients on a 1960s...
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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.
Nov 19, 1975 · With Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco, Dean R. Brooks, Alonzo Brown. In the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.
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Sep 18, 2020 · W hen the world first meets Nurse Ratched, the cruel asylum nurse in Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, she’s characterized in terrifying terms. She’s too comfortable ...
