Nursie

In this Misery rip-off, a young doctor involved in an automobile 'accident' somewhere near New Orleans is abducted by a sadistic nurse and her big brute of a son. Nursie runs a home for elderly women, but regularly abuses or even kills them if they step out of line. The poor guy is forced to eat drugged food and injected with syringes while being manacled to his bed. His only chance of escape seems to be through a shy young girl Nursie also keeps prisoner. But can he get the fudge outta there before this psychotic lady fulfils her aim of forced matrimony?

This boils down to one attempted escape after another, all being foiled by Nursie and her muscular goon of a lad, with the occasional death of an OAP and the sexual torture of our protagonist to liven things up. It's all very tongue in cheek and purposefully campy, but this repetitive formula gets real old by the end. I get the feeling this would have worked better as a 25 minute episode of The Twilight Zone than a full length feature film. Besides, if you've seen the aforementioned classic adaptation of Steven King's novel, why bother with this? It's cheap, it's cheesy, but it's not particularly worth your time.. and certainly is nothing compared to the Kathy Bates starrer. Don't bother. 3/10

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.

I went to see the movie, "Nursie" and was so surprised by the acting. I wondered who the Nurse was because I wasn't paying attention at first to the names and then when I saw the credits, it was the same woman who was in "North Dallas 40" and "Long Riders" a long time ago. I've always liked C. Thomas Howell but this time he seemed so grown up and deep. It was really scary. Not like other movies scary with tons of blood and constant slicing of peoples heads off but slower Southern like scary. The women in the nursing home, Twilight Gardens, were were really weird and feeble and sickly and Nursie was pretty twisted. Her niece, Mary Claire was so pretty. I wanted her to get what she wanted. I don't want to say what it is because I don't want to give anything away. I love movies shot in the South because they're so cloudy and steamy and dreamy and scary and complicated. Like the doctor tied to the bed in the attic that Nursie's brother feeds supper to.

I liked the colors. They were bold and whoever directed it must have known what he was doing for a long time because each scene led to the next. There wasn't any fat in the movie. And the song at the end was really beautiful. Spooky but in a way elegant. I'm waiting for "Nursie's Back".

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.

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