One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Plot summary

McMurphy thinks he can get out of doing work while in prison by pretending to be mad. His plan backfires when he is sent to a mental asylum. He tries to liven the place up a bit by playing card games and basketball with his fellow inmates, but the head nurse is after him at every turn. Written by Colin Tinto {cst@imdb.com}

McMurphy, a man with several assault convictions to his name, finds himself in jail once again. This time, the charge is statutory rape when it turns out that his girlfriend had lied about being eighteen, and was, in fact, fifteen (or, as McMurphy puts it, "fifteen going on thirty-five"). Rather than spend his time in jail, he convinces the guards that he's crazy enough to need psychiatric care and is sent to a hospital. He fits in frighteningly well, and his different point of view actually begins to cause some of the patients to progress. Nurse Ratched becomes his personal cross to bear as his resistance to the hospital routine gets on her nerves. Written by John Vogel {jlvogel@comcast.net} and J.D.

Cast of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

	Jack Nicholson	...	Randle Patrick McMurphy
	Louise Fletcher	...	Nurse Mildred Ratched
	William Redfield	...	Harding
	Michael Berryman	...	Ellis
	Peter Brocco	...	Colonel Matterson
	Dean R. Brooks	...	Dr. John Spivey
	Alonzo Brown	...	Miller
	Scatman Crothers	...	Orderly Turkle
	Mwako Cumbuka	...	Attendant Warren
	Danny DeVito	...	Martini
	William Duell	...	Jim Sefelt
	Josip Elic	...	Bancini
	Lan Fendors	...	Nurse Itsu
	Nathan George	...	Attendant Washington
	Ken Kenny	...	Beans Garfield