The Good Nurse
2022
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Nov 16, 2022 · The Wonder: Directed by Sebastián Lelio. With Niamh Algar, Florence Pugh, David Wilmot, Ruth Bradley. A tale of two strangers who transform each other's lives, a psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil.
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- Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Sebastián Lelio
- 2022-11-16
Nov 2, 2022 · Nine-year-old Anna O’Donnell (the excellent Kila Lord Cassidy) has not eaten in four months. She claims to subsist only on manna from heaven, and her survival has led to worshippers who want to confer with this potential saint.
Nov 2, 2022 · Watchlist. TRAILER. All Quiet on the Western Front. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. The Irish Midlands, 1862 -- a young girl stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well. English nurse Lib...
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- Sebastián Lelio
- R
- Florence Pugh
- What's with That Weird opening?
- What Does Nurse Wright Drink Every Night?
- Is It True That Anna Doesn't Need to Eat?
- Why Does Anna Refuse to Eat?
- What's with The Narrator at The End?
- Is The Wonder Based on A True Story?
You might have been double-checking which movie you'd put on after seeing this period drama's strange beginning. To the sounds of haunting choral voices, we see the semi-built structure of an old-fashioned two-storey house. The camera pans through what appears to be a lot in a film studio, filled with equipment and other pieces of set. Then actor N...
Nurse Wright's addiction to what looks to be laudanum, a tincture of opium, is another nod to that question of what's real and what isn't. Nurse Wright has suffered her fair share of tragedy -- her baby daughter died and her husband left her soon after -- and the night cap might be her way of coping. Pricking her finger with blood could be a way of...
Not long into Nurse Wright's stay with the O'Donnell family, we see young Anna's mother lean in close to her daughter's face during a nightly prayer. It isn't clear if we're witnessing a loving kiss on the forehead or something more disturbing. Nurse Wright soon escalates her watch over the miracle patient by insisting the O'Donnells no longer come...
Even after Nurse Wright reveals her findings to the committee, Anna's mother refuses to admit the truth. She and her husband are willing to let the experiment continue, even if Anna dies, refusing to give up their religious beliefs. In any case, Anna has "chosen" the path to death, believing that if she dies, "one soul will be released... from Hell...
In the end, Nurse Wright uses the power of storytelling and belief to save Anna. After discovering the horrifying narrative Anna's mother has fed her, Nurse Wright convinces Anna she could face a different fate: That she can die and make her sacrifice, but also be reborn as a 9-year-old again who didn't suffer terrible acts. Mixing the opioid liqui...
Irish-Canadian writer Emma Donoghue adapted The Wonder from her own 2016 novel (Donoghue did the same with her 2010 novel Room, the 2015 adaptation seeing Brie Larson win the best actress Oscar). The story of The Wonder isn't based on real-life events but was inspired by the phenomenon of "the fasting girl," dating back to the 1500s, whereby girls ...
Watch the trailer, find screenings & book tickets for The Wonder on the official site. In theaters November 02 2022 brought to you by Netflix.
Oct 6, 2022 · Netflix Nov 16, 2022. Check out the trailer for The Wonder, an upcoming psychological drama starring Florence Pugh, Tom Burke, Niamh Algar, Elaine Cassidy, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Toby Jones, Ciarán...
