By Dale Wasserman / Adapted from the novel by Ken Kesey
Directed by Dennis Romer

First published as a book by Ken Kesey in 1962, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was inspired by Kesey's job as an orderly at a veteran's hospital and by the 1960s counterculture movement touting such themes as freedom, rebellion and fearlessness. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is Dale Wasserman's adaptation of the novel. Sentenced to jail for contributing to the delinquency of a minor, Randle Patrick McMurphy convinces the guards he's crazy enough to need psychiatric care and is sent to a hospital. He fits in surprisingly well, his point of view actually causing some of the patients to progress, until Nurse Ratched decides that things are moving just a little too progressively. It's the classic antiestablishment tale of one man asserting his individuality in the face of a repressive, conformist system.