Overview: 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.

Vote Average: 8.42

Genres: Drama

Production Companies: Fantasy Films , United Artists

Cast: Jack Nicholson, Brad Dourif, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito, William Redfield, View more Scatman Crothers, Christopher Lloyd, Will Sampson, Dean R. Brooks, Michael Berryman, Sydney Lassick, William Duell, Vincent Schiavelli, Peter Brocco, Alonzo Brown, Mwako Cumbuka, Josip Elic, Ken Kenny, Nathan George, Ted Markland, Louisa Moritz, Mews Small, Delos V. Smith Jr., Lan Fendors, Mimi Sarkisian, Mel Lambert, Kay Lee, Dwight Marfield, Tin Welch, Philip Roth, Aurore Clément, Anjelica Huston, Audrey Landers, Saul Zaentz

Crew: Jane Feinberg , Mike Fenton , Arthur Coburn , Saul Zaentz , Michael Douglas View more , Lynzee Klingman , Miloš Forman , Bo Goldman , Haskell Wexler , Ken Kesey , Lawrence Hauben , Jack Nitzsche , Sheldon Kahn , Pat Jackson , Alan Gibbs , Richard Chew , Aggie Guerard Rodgers , Larry Jost , Irby Smith , Paul Sylbert , Wayne Fitzgerald , Joel Douglas , Bonnie Koehler , Joel Chernoff , Martin Fink , Dale Wasserman , Irving Saraf , Jay Miracle , Fred B. Phillips , Terry E. Lewis , Dick Colean , Robert C. Thomas , Joe Acord , Edwin O'Donovan , Natalie Drache , George Hill , Tom Bartholomew , Philip Rogers , Ted Whitfield , Tom F. Thomas Kyle T. MacDowell