Lesson Four- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1. Lesson

When Randle Patrick McMurphy gets transferred for evaluation from a prison farm to a mental institution, he assumes it will be a less restrictive environment. But the intimidating Nurse Ratched runs the psychiatric ward with an iron fist, keeping her patients cowed through abuse, medication and sessions of electroconvulsive therapy. The battle of wills between the rebellious McMurphy and the inflexible Ratched soon affects all the ward's patients.

“Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!” - Dale Wasserman