An attack on all forms of autority and a celebration of the free sprit...

Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict, unbeinding routine. Her patients, cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy, dare not oppose her. But everything changes with the ariival of McMurphy - the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin. MCMurphy battles Nurse Ratched and the ward regime, challenging everyone's beliefs about madness... who, of them all, is realy insane?