Mr. Rogers & Captain Kangaroo

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Rather than spend his time in jail, McMurphy, played by Jack Nicholson convinces the guards that he's crazy enough to need psychiatric care and is sent to a hospital. His plan backfires when he is sent to a mental asylum. He fits in frighteningly well, and his different point of view actually begins to cause some of the patients to progress. He tries to liven the place up a bit by playing card games and basketball with his fellow inmates, but the head nurse Ratched played by Louise Fletcher becomes his personal cross to bear as his resistance to the hospital routine gets on her nerves.