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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1975 133 min Drama

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.

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IMDb 8.6 RT 92 Metacritic 84

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5 wins

4 nominations

budget $3,000,000 earnings $108,981,275 return 36.3x

director Miloš Forman

writers Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman

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