Nursie (2005)

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

I was visiting a friend in Los Angeles and saw this movie in his DVD collection. I had never heard of it. I popped it in late one night. I'm here to tell you, it's a great little character piece. You can't help but like Nursie even though she's terrible and you hate her. The acting in this movie is excellent. It's one of those movies where although it's scary, you have to laugh many times. I gave it to a friend and her kids loved it. Nursie is a character you have to feel sorry for yet you want her taken out.My favorite parts are the ones which show just how sick Nursie is. A pathetic aging woman looking for love and thinking she can force someone to love her. Nursie goes in and out of sanity. A very sick movie.

For quite a while now I have looked out for a copy of "Nursie" on DVD as I had heard quite a few good things about it. Well I finally found it, and no less on sale for 10 dollars, unfortunately 10 dollars still is a lot for a film like "Nursie". The back promises the film will be in the same vain as "Misery", well yeah, I guess you could say its like "Misery" except more awful. It's bland, tedious, and very difficult to finish this movie. The simplistic plot goes like this -"a man and his girlfriend go driving down to visit a friend on the brink of a hurricane, they get ran off the road, and the guy ends up trapped with a psycho lady...oh yeah and here's the spoiler***** after repeatedly almost escaping, then getting recaptured and then getting drugged, he eventually escapes. OH WOW. And by the way he almost escapes like three hundred times and gets caught in another predictable, lazy fashion. The script is lazy, the directing is extremely amateurish (he constantly tilts the camera because that obviously means that this is indeed a "horror/suspense" film). Everything about this film is bland, predictable and sluggish. It's simply not enjoyable. One good thing to say is the acting isn't half bad, aside from the pure crap dialogue the actors had to spew out they did quite well, nice to see C. Thomas Howell back in action and better then ever...he should probably just be in a good movie next time...not even GREAT just GOOD. I don't hold any bias against this film for being low budget, I do not judge on that, in fact horror films that are low budget generally appeal to me more. "F"

I caught this at a screening at the media experience in new orleans back in october. I did not know the movie was filmed on dv until the producers said it. This movie is very similiar to misery a film done many years back by reiner except he did it better. misery was based on the book by stephen king. this movie doesn't even come close to the nerve-racking nature and intensity of misery. NURSIE is cliched and downright dumb at many times. rhere is better dialogue in disney's CAT IN THE HAT. Hopefully we will be spared from a NURSIE II. NURSIE leaves it open for a sequel. Not all of this movie was bad. There is great cinematography and direction for a dv movie. The performances was good too. 3/10

Incredible camera work and direction. It's worth seeing just for the camera tricks. I still can't figure out how they did some of that stuff and I've been in the industry for 22 years. C. Thomas Howell is back... with a vengeance.