Years before the film won five Oscars, the secret police in Prague seized the copy of Ken Kesey’s novel that Kirk Douglas sent to Miloš Forman. Jack Nicholson lands on a locked psychiatric ward where nobody argues with the head nurse, so he does, and freedom costs more than anything else in there.
Sent from prison to a psychiatric hospital for observation, McMurphy finds a ward run by Nurse Ratched, whose rules bind everyone without exception and which the patients stopped questioning long ago. He questions them on his very first afternoon, and the battle he starts will change everything around him.
Oscars
Best Film
1976
Oscars
Best Actor (Jack Nicholson)
1976
Oscars
Best Actress (Louise Fletcher)
1976
Oscars
Best Director
1976
Oscars
Best Adapted Screenplay
1976
BAFTA
Best Film
1977
BAFTA
Best Actor (Jack Nicholson)
1977
BAFTA
Best Actress (Louise Fletcher)
1977
BAFTA
Best Supporting Actor (Brad Dourif)
1977
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