The Good Nurse

2022 - 10 - 26

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How Netflix's The Good Nurse flips the script on the true crime genre ... (CBC.ca)

The Netflix production stars Jessica Chastain as Amy Loughren, a New Jersey nurse who learns her close friend and co-worker is a serial killer.

The film isn't the first adaptation of the murders. The Good Nurse isn't your typical true crime story. It was a tough story to tell, Redmayne said, but working with Chastain helped. "It's always dangerous to work with friends. They were totally dead in the water until this little angel, Amy." Another 2008 film, Killer Nurse, was inspired by the serial killer.

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Where Is Charles Cullen From 'The Good Nurse' Now? All About ... (Women's Health)

Thanks to Loughren's help, Cullen was caught and arrested in December of 2003. A decade later, a journalist named Charles Graeber wrote a book on Cullen's ...

One of his victims was just 21 years old, per the [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/03/nyregion/as-victims-relatives-watch-nurse-who-killed-29-gets-11-life-terms.html).He was also fired or forced out of at least six medical centers, the outlet reported. (According to some [reports](https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/serial-killer/prolific-serial-killer-nurse-charles-cullen-may-have-killed-as-many-as-400-patients), though, Cullen may have killed up to 400 people in his care.) [The Good Nurse](https://www.womenshealthmag.com/fitness/a41714995/jessica-chastain-legs-minidress-heels-the-good-nurse-photo/) tells the story of Cullen's crimes from the perspective of his friend and coworker, Amy Loughren. [The Good Nurse](https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a41722781/the-good-nurse-true-story-charles-cullen-amy-loughren/) tells the [terrifying tale](https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a41574730/the-watcher-netflix-theories/) of a nurse named Charles Cullen who murdered dozens of patients over the course of 16 years. He’s currently serving time at New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, and his earliest possible parole date would be June 10, 2388. Cullen enlisted in the US Navy but was medically discharged in 1984 after attempting to take his own life. It’s hard to say for sure. [charged with the murder](https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a41251138/jeffrey-dahmer-now/) of 29 patients. Thanks to Loughren's help, Cullen was caught and arrested in December of 2003. [Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/nyregion/killer-donated-his-kidney-lawyer-says.html) says. IRL, after she learned what Cullen was doing, she helped authorities catch him. [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/nyregion/killer-donated-his-kidney-lawyer-says.html).

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Is The Good Nurse Based on a True Story? (TownandCountrymag.com)

Krysty Wilson-Cairns, who wrote the new thriller, on the real-life events that inspired it.

We were walking out, and I said, ‘This is hard,’ and she was like, ‘This isn’t even the hardest things I’ve done this week.’ I said, ‘Well, you did catch a serial killer that one time,’ and she told me, ‘That’s not even the hardest thing I did. “Because you're hamstrung by what actually happened, that makes you have to be more inventive, more creative, and it makes you have to really double down into the essential,” the screenwriter says. “When we were about to go on stage at the Toronto International Film Festival, Amy and I were a bit nervous; it was the first time an audience had watched the film. “She was the person who used her humanity to awaken his,” she says. In The Good Nurse, Redmayne takes a chilling turn as Cullen, while Chastain plays Amy Loughren, another hospital nurse who befriends Cullen before realizing that something is terribly wrong and sets out to stop it. The Good Nurse, the new drama streaming now on Netflix, has all the makings of a classic thriller: There’s a seemingly unstoppable villain, a heroine forced to display incredible bravery, and stakes as high as they can possibly be.

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