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A convict fakes insanity to escape prison, but clashes with a strict nurse in a mental hospital.
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Randle Patrick McMurphy is a free-spirited, small-time convict who fakes being crazy so he can get transferred from the state penitentiary to what he thinks will be a more comfortable state mental hospital. But his contagious sense of delightful chaos clashes with the numbing routine of the hospital and the woman in charge of making sure nothing disrupts the sedate mood of the floor, Nurse Ratched. Based on Ken Kesey's acclaimed bestseller.
"One of the great films of the 1970s, winner of five Oscars - including Best Picture - and features a magical performance by Jack Nicholson. The screenplay, based on a book, is also great, leading us to understand the dramas and small joys of the patients in the psychiatric institute, and also that each of us has a little bit of "madness" within us."