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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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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  4. 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 ...

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  5. Nurse Mildred Ratched is a real piece of work, don't you think? She's pretty much every rebel's worst nightmare—a Dolores Umbridge for the over-30 set. In the opening scene of this movie, we watch Nurse Ratched walk through the mental hospital while all kinds of people say "Good Morning" to her.

  6. Sep 18, 2020 · In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, published in 1962, Ken Kesey introduced Nurse Mildred Ratched, the domineering administrative head of the psychiatric ward at Salem State Hospital.

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  8. 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 ...