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This feature looks at the life in a mental institution from the viewpoint of the anti-hero, Randale Patrick McMurphy (Mac). As McMurphy attempts to shake things up within his gloomy atmosphere, the tyrannical nurse Ratched stops him dead in his tracks. This film captures the anarchic spirit of Mac, as well as shows us the workings of a truly destructive system. The film's credits role over an Oregonian wilderness scene at daybreak, as a pair of headlights pass across the screen. Nurse Ratched, coated in black, arrives at the locked, security ward of a state mental hospital, where patients, nurses, and orderlies begin their daybreak ritual of dispensing the morning pills.
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