The Good Nurse

The Good Nurse Movie Details:

The Good Nurse Movie Cast & Characters:

• Jessica Chastain as Amy Loughren, a single mother and nurse at Parkfield Memorial Hospital, who is also a cardiomyopathy patient.
• Eddie Redmayne as Charles Cullen, an experienced nurse who is new to Parkfield’s medical staff, and secretly a prolific serial killer.
• Nnamdi Asomugha as Danny Baldwin, a state police detective assigned to investigate the case of mysterious deaths at Parkfield.
• Noah Emmerich as Tim Braun, another state police detective and Baldwin’s partner, also assigned to investigate to the Parkfield case.
• Kim Dickens as Linda Garran, Parkfield’s risk manager and former nurse, who seeks to preserve Parkfield’s reputation in the wake of the deaths.
• Malik Yoba as Sam Johnson, the local police chief and superior officer to Braun and Baldwin.
• Maria Dizzia as Lori, a nurse who is a friend and former coworker of Amy’s.

Storyline:

Suspicious that her colleague (Eddie Redmayne) is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, a nurse (Jessica Chastain) risks her own life to uncover the truth in this gripping thriller based on true events.

About The Good Nurse Movie:

The Good Nurse is an American drama film starring Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne, about the serial killer Charles Cullen and the fellow nurse who suspects him.

The film is based on the 2013 true-crime book of the same name by Charles Graeber.

The film was announced in November 2016, with Tobias Lindholm set to direct and Krysty Wilson-Cairns writing the screenplay adapting Charles Graeber’s 2013 non-fiction book The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder.

Filming began on April 12, 2021, in Stamford, Connecticut.

The Good Nurse had its world premiere at the 47th Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2022, and was released in select theaters on October 19, before streaming on Netflix on October 26, 2022.

The film received positive reviews from critics, with particular praise towards Redmayne’s performance for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

The Good Nurse was the most-viewed film on Netflix on October 27, 2022, the day after its release. In its first week, it debuted at number one on Netflix’s Top 10 with 68.31 million viewing hours with it being Top 10 in 93 countries. The next week, it dropped to second, behind Enola Holmes 2, having received 36.78 million viewing hours.