I don ' t think it was her heart that was filled there . <| sep |>### One Flew Over the Cuckoo ' s Nest 1975 FlewOvertheCuckoo % 27 sNest % 281975 % 29 Drama , 2 h 13 min Michael Berryman , Peter Brocco , Dean R . Brooks , Alonzo Brown Director Milos FormanIMDb rating # movieguidestars # 9733 # 9733 # 9733 # 9733 # 9733 # 9733 # 9733 # 9733 # 9733 # 9734 8 . 710 675 , 372 votes McMurphy thinks he can get out of doing work while in prison by pretending to be mad . His plan backfires when he is sent to a mental asylum . He tries to liven the place up a bit by playing card games and basketball with his fellow inmates , but the head nurse is after him at every turn . IMDbCritical reception The film was met with overwhelming critical acclaim Roger Ebert said Milo Forman ' s One Flew Over the Cuckoo ' s Nest is a film so good in so many of its parts that there ' s a temptation to forgive it when it goes wrong . But it does go wrong , insisting on making larger points than its story really should carry , so that at the end , the human qualities of the characters get lost in the significance of it all . And yet there are those moments of brilliance . Ebert would later put the film on his Great Movies list . A . D . Murphy of Variety wrote a mixed review as well , as did Vincent Canby writing in The New York Times , Canby called the film a comedy that can ' t quite support its tragic conclusion , which is too schematic to be honestly moving , but it is acted with such a sense of life that one responds to its demonstration of humanity if not to its programmed metaphors . WikipediaMore info at FlewOvertheCuckoo % 27 sNest % 281975 % 29 , One % 20 Flew % 20 Over % 20 the % 20 Cuckoo % 27 s % 20 Nest % 20 % 28 film % 29 , Rotten Tomatoes , flewoverthecuckoosnest , , . I am a bot . Send me feedback % 2 Fr % 2 FMovieGuidesubjectRe % 3 A % 20 Confidence 1 . 06 . Data sources and other i n f ormationrMovieGuidewabout .