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In 1962, Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest introduced to the world a collection of colorful mental patients, as well as Nurse Ratched, the cruel administrator who kept them in line.

Readers also met R.P. McMurphy, a convict who gets himself committed to Ratched's hospital in the hopes of a lighter sentence. However, when McMurphy arrives, he begins a battle of wills with the nurse — a battle that resonated with the social struggles of the '60s.

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And all these years later, his fight against the system still resonates today.

Of course, when people think of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, they mostly remember the Oscar-winning 1975 movie that brought Kesey's novel to life.

Directed by Miloš Forman, the film immortalized the characters of McMurphy and Ratched. Plus, it was filled with some of the most talented actors of its day. Some of these cast members went on to become gigantic stars