Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- One of the best-reviewed films Cue holds.
The story
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.
- mentally disabled
- friendship
- based on novel or book
- nurse
- lunatic asylum
- affectation
- insane asylum
- oregon
- usa
- hospital
- medication
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jack Nicholson
Randle Patrick McMurphy
Brad Dourif
Billy Bibbit
Louise Fletcher
Nurse Mildred Ratched
Danny DeVito
Martini
- William Redfield — Dale Harding
- Scatman Crothers — Orderly Turkle
- Christopher Lloyd — Max Taber
- Will Sampson — Chief Bromden
- Dean R. Brooks — Dr. John Spivey
- Michael Berryman — Ellis
- Sydney Lassick — Charlie Cheswick
- William Duell — Jim Sefelt
- Vincent Schiavelli — Bruce Fredrickson
- Peter Brocco — Col. Matterson
- Alonzo Brown — Miller
- Directed
- Miloš Forman
- Written
- Bo Goldman, Lawrence Hauben
Production
- Rating
- 8.4 / 10 · 11,714 ratings
- Studio
- Fantasy Films
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
