The Good Nurse
Suspicious that her colleague is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, a nurse risks her own life to uncover the truth in this gripping thriller based on true events.
- Released: 2022-10-19
- Runtime: 121 minutes
- Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Stars: Jessica Chastain, Eddie Redmayne, Noah Emmerich, Nnamdi Asomugha, Kim Dickens, Devyn McDowell, Ajay Naidu, Maria Dizzia, Malik Yoba, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Gina Jun, Brooke Stacy Mills, Anjelica Bosboom, Rebecca Watson, Maurice J. Irvin, Victor Cruz, Jennifer Regan, Andrew James Bleidner, Shaun O'Hagan
- Director: Tobias Lindholm
Comments
- garyvines-01290 - 14 March 2024
A little bit better than I expected, I didn't realize it was based on a true story
This movie features Jessica Chastain as a nurse named Amy Loughren who's newly employed at a hospital such that she doesn't yet receive medical benefits. She needs to work for a few more months before she can get them and due to an ongoing medical issue, this becomes a very important part of her job and her life as that she has 2 young daughters at home and is struggling financially since her medical conditions is costing her out of her pocket. While at work a new nurse shows up Charlie Cullen played by Eddie Redmayne. He's kind of a goofy and awkward guy but nice enough and soon he and Amy and her daughters become fast friends. They become such good friends that he is allowed to watch her daughters and eventually her babysitter (which was costing her) is needed less and less. Charlie discovers her need for medical benefits and agrees to help her in the impending months before he benefits arrive. In the meantime, something starts happening to patients that appear to be on the mend who start dying unexpectedly. Amy discovers that Charlie is responsible for the deaths and, at great cost to her job, benefits and potentially her life, agrees to help the police stop him.
I didn't know this was based on actual events until the end of the movie when updates on the actual people flashed at the end.
While this movie isn't really a thriller, horror or even a phycological thriller, it does fall into a drama with horror overtones as there is substantial body count, although not done in a violent way. The actors were VERY good with well written story, but it didn't really have a lot of punch until the end when the drama comes to a head. I think I appreciated the sort of muted way the characters were portrayed until the end when their acting abilities were called on the carpet. This movie isn't bad, I just kind of didn't know what to expect as I hadn't heard this story before. It's worth a watch, just know there aren't any jump scares (that I recall anyway) and it's a bit of a slow burn. - lavatch - 1 September 2023
Flatliners
Early in the film, we meet two nurses. One is Amy Loughren, who is struggling to support two young daughters while battling a major health problem with her heart. The second is Charlie Cullen, who has recently switched jobs, which has become a habit based on the number of hospitals in which he has been employed.
It is not difficult at all to figure out who is the "good nurse" of the film's title.
Some of the best scenes are those with the two investigators, Danny Baldwin and Tim Braun. Both suspect that something is amiss when a woman dies under suspicious circumstances at the hospital where Charlie and Amy work.
Astonishingly, the hospital killer may have senselessly taken the lives of hundreds of patients. The hospital staff, administrators, and feckless attorneys stonewall the investigation of the two detectives. It takes one courageous "good" nurse to take a stand on ending the serial killings. There was an exceptional performance of Jessica Chastain as the good nurse.
