“One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” quotes
(1975)Plot – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American psychological comedy drama film based on the 1962 novel of the same name. The movie follows Randle McMurphy, a convict serving time for statutory rape who pleads insanity to avoid labour duties in prison. Believing its all an act, the authorities send him to a mental institution where he will forego psychiatric evaluation. He tries to liven the place up a bit by playing card games and basketball with his fellow inmates, but the head nurse Mildred Ratched, a cold, passive-aggressive tyrant, is after him at every turn.
All actors – Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco, Dean R. Brooks, Alonzo Brown, Scatman Crothers, Mwako Cumbuka, Danny DeVito, William Duell, Josip Elic, Lan Fendors, Louise Fletcher, Nathan George, Ken Kenny, Mel Lambert, Sydney Lassick, Kay Lee, Christopher Lloyd, Dwight Marfield, Ted Markland, Louisa Moritz, Jack Nicholson, William Redfield, Philip Roth, Will Sampson, Mimi Sarkisian, Vincent Schiavelli, Mews Small, Delos V. Smith Jr., Tin Welch, Brad Dourif, , Aurore Clément, Anjelica Huston, Audrey Landers, Tom McCall, James V. Shore, Saul Zaentz
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“The best thing we can do is go on with our daily routine.”
“Which one of you nuts has got any guts?”
“Jesus, I mean, you guys do nothing but complain about how you can't stand it in this place here and you don't have the guts just to walk out? What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin'? Well you're not! You're not! You're no crazier than the average asshole out walkin' around on the streets and that's it.”
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