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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
This nOde last updated January 13th, 2002 and is permanently morphing...
(13 Chicchan (Serpent) - 3 Muan (Owl) - 65/260 - 12.19.8.16.5)

Directed by
Milos Forman

Writing credits
Bo Goldman
Lawrence Hauben

Genre: Drama

Plot Outline: A man sent to a mental hospital finds the head nurse a lot more dangerous than the other patients.

Cast overview, first billed only:

Jack Nicholson (_The Shining_)  ....   Randle Patrick McMurphy
Louise Fletcher (_Brainstorm_)  ....   Nurse Mildred Ratched
William Redfield ....   Harding
Michael Berryman   ....    Ellis
Peter Brocco  ....  Col. Matterson
Dean R. Brooks ....   Dr. John Spivey
Alonzo Brown ....   Miller
Scatman Crothers (The Shining)  ....   Orderly Turkle
Mwako Cumbuka  ....   Warren
Danny DeVito ....    Martini
William Duell ....  Jim Sefelt
Josip Elic ....    Bancini
Lan Fendors ....   Nurse Itsu
Nathan George ....   Attendant Washington
Ken Kenny    ....     Beans Garfield
Brad Dourif (_Dune_/_Wild Palms_) ....  Billy Bibbit

Runtime: Argentina:133 / Germany:133 / Sweden:133 / USA:133
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color (DeLuxe)
Certification: Argentina:16 / Australia:M / Austria:12 / Finland:K-16 / Germany:12 (re-rating) / Germany:16 / Italy:VM14 / Netherlands:12 / Norway:15 / Norway:16 (1976) / Sweden:15 / UK:18 / USA:R

• Ken Kesey, who wrote the original novel, said he will never watch the movie version.
• Jack Nicholson disappeared two months before filming started.  When the crew arrived at the mental hospital to start filming, they discovered that he had admitted himself as a patient, and had been living there since disappearing.
• Many extras were authentic mental patients.  There is a rumor that Nicholson underwent ECT therapy during the scene were his character does.
• track _Mask_ by Babyland off of _You Suck Crap_ CD on Flipside
• samples from the film: "What you probably don't realize is that we have a lot of old men on this board, who couldn't hear the music if we turned it lower." @ 0:38; "That music is all they have" @ 0:45, 3:28 (Repeated several times)

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