- Title: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Original Title: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Release Date: 19/11/1975
- Tagline: If he's crazy, what does that make you?
- Budget: $3,000,000.00
- Duration:133 Min / 02:13
- Country:US
- Genre:Drama
About Film
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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