One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“In this clean, orderly, disciplined world, who needs guys like McMurphy? Everybody.”
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.
Genres
Drama
Studio
Fantasy Films
Language
en
Status
Released
How One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest performed
Budget
$3.0M
Worldwide Gross
$109.0M
Gross Profit
$106.0M
Return
36.3× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$16M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Randle Patrick McMurphy
Jack Nicholson
Randle Patrick McMurphy
Billy Bibbit
Brad Dourif
Billy Bibbit
Nurse Mildred Ratched
Louise Fletcher
Nurse Mildred Ratched
Martini
Danny DeVito
Martini
Dale Harding
William Redfield
Dale Harding
Orderly Turkle
Scatman Crothers
Orderly Turkle
Max Taber
Christopher Lloyd
Max Taber
Chief Bromden
Will Sampson
Chief Bromden
Dr. John Spivey
Dean R. Brooks
Dr. John Spivey
Ellis
Michael Berryman
Ellis
Charlie Cheswick
Sydney Lassick
Charlie Cheswick
Jim Sefelt
William Duell
Jim Sefelt
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