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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest(1975)
Released
1975 · FILM

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

as a threat to her authority and initiates a psychological battle to break his spirit, but McMurphy's rebellious energy begins to inspire the other patients to question their own powerlessness in a system that treats them like prisoners, not patients.

“In this clean, orderly, disciplined world, who needs guys like McMurphy? Everybody.”

Directed by
Milos Forman
Written by
Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
133 min
Drama
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

A petty criminal pretends to be mentally ill in order to serve his sentence in a psychiatric facility rather than a prison. While there, he assumes a leadership role among the other patients and comes into conflict with the domineering nurse who runs the ward.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 47+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Sheldon KahnShot by Haskell WexlerScored by Jack NitzscheDesigned by Paul Sylbert

Box Office

1975 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 36× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$109.0M

Budget$3.0M
Worldwide gross$109.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Einer flog über das Kuckucksnestde
  • Einer flog über's Kuckucksnestde
  • Einer flog übers Kuckucksnestde
  • Alguien voló sobre el nido del cucoes
  • Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucoufr
  • Qualcuno volò sul nido del cuculoit

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