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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.
Theatrical
Nov 19, 1975
Box Office
$109.0M
Budget
$3.0M
Return
36.3x
DVD / Blu-ray
Dec 17, 1997
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Studio
Fantasy Films
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Cast
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Jack Nicholson
Randle Patrick McMurphy
B
Brad Dourif
Billy Bibbit
L
Louise Fletcher
Nurse Mildred Ratched
D
Danny DeVito
Martini
W
William Redfield
Dale Harding
S
Scatman Crothers
Orderly Turkle
C
Christopher Lloyd
Max Taber
W
Will Sampson
Chief Bromden
D
Dean R. Brooks
Dr. John Spivey
M
Michael Berryman
Ellis
S
Sydney Lassick
Charlie Cheswick
W
William Duell
Jim Sefelt
V
Vincent Schiavelli
Bruce Fredrickson
P
Peter Brocco
Col. Matterson
A
Alonzo Brown
Miller
M
Mwako Cumbuka
Warren
J
Josip Elic
Bancini
N
Nathan George
Washington
T
Ted Markland
Hap Arlich
L
Louisa Moritz
Rose
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Quotes
See all →Confrontation Between Nurse Ratched and Billy
Nurse Ratched
Aren't you ]?
[[ashamed]
Billy
No, I'm not.
[the other patients applaud]
Nurse Ratched
You know, Billy, what worries me is how your ]'s going to take this.
[[mother]
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
The Impact of Control and Addiction
Chief Bromden
My pop was real big. He did like he pleased. That's why everybody ] on him. The last time I seen my father, he was blind in the cedars from ]. And every time he put the bottle to his mouth, he don't suck out of it, it sucks out of him until he shrunk so wrinkled and yellow even the dogs didn't know him.
[[worked; [drinking]
McMurphy
Killed him, huh?
Chief Bromden
I'm not saying they ] him. They just worked on him. The way they're working on you.
[[killed]
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
