<P> Considered to be one of the greatest films ever made, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is No. 33 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years...100 Movies list . The film was the second to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Actor in Lead Role, Actress in Lead Role, Director, and Screenplay) following It Happened One Night in 1934, an accomplishment not repeated until 1991 by The Silence of the Lambs . It also won numerous Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards . </P> <P> In 1993, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress, and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry . </P> <P> In 1963 Oregon, recidivist criminal Randle McMurphy is moved to a mental institution after serving a short sentence on a prison farm for statutory rape of a 15 - year - old . Though not actually mentally ill, McMurphy hopes to avoid hard labor and serve the rest of his sentence in a relaxed environment . Upon arriving at the hospital, he finds the ward run by the steely, strict Nurse Ratched, who subtly suppresses the actions of her patients through a passive - aggressive routine, intimidating the patients . </P> <P> The other patients include anxious, stuttering Billy Bibbit; Charlie Cheswick, who is prone to childish tantrums; delusional Martini; the well - educated, paranoid Dale Harding; belligerent Max Taber; epileptic Jim Sefelt; and "Chief" Bromden, a tall Native American believed to be deaf and mute . Ratched soon sees McMurphy's lively, rebellious presence to be a threat to her authority, confiscating the patients' cigarettes and rationing them . During his time in the ward, McMurphy gets into a battle of wits with Ratched . He steals a hospital bus, escaping with several patients to go on a fishing trip, encouraging his friends to become more self - confident . </P>

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