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Nurse Ratched
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“One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” - film
- In One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Nurse Ratched (played by Louise Fletcher) enters for work, and the patients line up to receive their medications. A new inmate, R.P. McMurphy (Nicholson), arrives as a transfer from a prison work farm. As soon as he arrives on the ward, McMurphy begins interfering with…
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portrayal by Fletcher
- In Louise Fletcher
…portrayal of the rigidly authoritarian Nurse Ratched in One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), which earned her the Academy Award for best actress.
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