A Jack Nicholson Movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American psychological drama film, directed by Miloš Forman, based on the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. The film stars Jack Nicholson as a new patient at a mental institution, alongside Louise Fletcher as an austere nurse. The supporting cast is Will Sampson, Danny DeVito, Sydney Lassick, William Redfield, and the film debuts of Christopher Lloyd and Brad Dourif. When Randle Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) gets transferred for evaluation from a prison farm to a mental institution, he assumes it will be a less restrictive environment. But the martinet Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) runs the psychiatric ward with an iron fist, keeping her patients cowed through abuse, medication and sessions of electroconvulsive therapy. The battle of wills between the rebellious McMurphy and the inflexible Ratched soon affects all the ward's patients. Disability being stigmatized, the distinction between ability and disability, the threat of women, the assertion of masculinity, human mechanization, the importance of intellectual freedom, the power of laughter, the importance of sexual expression, social pressure.