THE GOOD NURSE

2 Oscar winners go toe-to-toe to tell this tragic, based on true events story. Jessica Chastain stars as nurse Amy Loughren, an empathetic and well-mannered nurse who sees the humanity in her patients and goes above-and-beyond for them, even sometimes at her own risk with her supervisor. Dealing with a medical condition of her own and with her hospital's budget tighter than a pair of Chinese finger cuffs, Charlie Cullen (Eddie Redmayne) is hired to assist with the hospitals workload. Having bounced around quite a bit in his line of work (about 9 hospitals within the previous 7 years), Charlie seems too good to be true. A well attentive nurse who quickly befriends Amy and her 2 young daughters, although not everything is quite as it seems. A few patients pass under mysterious circumstances and when the police are called to investigate, Charlie becomes the chief suspect. Upon looking into his background and questioning why he's bounced around from hospital to hospital, it becomes clear the pattern of mysterious deaths at Amy's hospital have been following Charlie around everywhere he's worked. Wonderful performances by both Chastain and Redmayne playing overworked and probably underpaid nurses who work the night shift. Amy never sees her girls, who mean the world to her, due to her work schedule and is in need of a surgical procedure but is not eligible for health care benefits until she's completed her first year of work, which, when we pick her up, is still 4 grueling months away. It's an interesting story that is all the more tragic that a nurse was capable of such heinous crimes and the fact, again, this is based on a true story. Netflix actually puts out a great film (I'm not much of a fan of Netflix movies) and this is most definitely worth a view. 7.5/10