Highly Overrated But Still Good

Absolutely brilliant

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Lance (Steven Good) and Brooke (Sarah Butler) are a happily married couple who off a guy with their car. They survive. Brooke goes back to work as a chef while Lance is forced to have therapy with the nurse from Maxim (Lindsay Hartley). She takes a shine to Lance which creates problems. His other option for a nurse is a chunky Traci Lords.This is a Lifetime film. The expected twist that comes in this type of Nanny formula film, was done a bit differently, but made the film a bit awkward.The acting wasn't there.

Somewhere in Los Angeles, professional chef Sarah Butler (as Brooke Harmon) gets a promotion. A happy cook, Ms. Butler has just moved in with handsome boyfriend Steven Good (as Lance Boston). An Internet web designer, Mr. Good proposed marriage to Butler. She decided the couple should live together for around three years, before making it legal. That seems reasonable, for our characters. After celebrating her work promotion, they have a tragic accident while driving home. For reasons unclear, a strange man walks into ongoing traffic and is hit by Good. Butler is fine, but Good has a broken leg. He needs a full-time nurse to help him take his medication and go to the bathroom. In walks attractive Lindsay Hartley (as Chloe Spade)..."Nightmare Nurse" is your average "Lifetime" TV movie. The obvious weakness is a story with plot points that should have been clearer. Jake Helgren's story is implausible, as is necessary for the genre, but you'll see things happening that require further explanation. Most obviously, characters appear in places too unexpectedly...Relatively new to this sort of movie, director Craig Moss is outstanding. His early hospital scenes capture the mood and characters very well. The shot of Good with his leg raised way up was great. Having the hapless couple wake up in Verdugo Hills Hospital with nurses "Barb" and "Paul" set the stage for a "Nightmare Nurse" adventure. Coming to consciousness with "Barb" and "Paul" in that hospital would make me squeamish. VHH nurses don't look like Traci Lords and Michael Finn. Still, considering the story, they are well cast. The folks who make TV movies should send the director a multi-picture contract, as Mr. Moss keeps the characters engaging with limited sets and budget. Moss should also consider holding out for bigger pictures.***** Nightmare Nurse (3/5/2016) Craig Moss ~ Sarah Butler, Steven Good, Lindsay Hartley, Traci Lords

Where do I even begin with this movie?Perhaps I should start with the grammar--who ends a sentence with 'for'? What did she do this for? What did he act like that for? Really?! That right there should have tipped me off that this was going to be a BAD Lifetime movie. :(The medical jargon--whoever wrote the script clearly copy & pasted anything medical from a quick google search.For Brooke to be so awesome that she was promoted to sous-chef, we never actually saw her cook a thing! Heck, she didn't even stir a pot! And the chef was quite the diva--completely over the top!Also, what kind of nurse (RN, LPN, whatever) is a nanny? Lance was in his right mind and able to administer his own meds. What he needed was home health physical therapy, not a licensed nurse to do his laundry, cook his meals, and obviously overdose him on meds.The entire movie moved entirely too slowly for the ending to be so rushed that Barb was revealed in the last five minutes as the true villain. I do not suggest this movie to anyone.

The film starts off well when a young couple are involved in an accident which kills a pedestrian. Though they are vindicated, their lives shall never be the same and the irony here is that it's the nursing profession that put them in grave danger.A young nurse is assigned to help our guy recuperate and at once she puts the moves on the guy and when he spurns her, she becomes more violent and takes others as victims along the way.As the film proceeds, we are shocked by the fact that this nurse, with mental issues, has been used by another to perpetrate all that is going on. This may have weakened the film since the duped nurse did much of the dirty work while being led on by someone else. This may become hard to fathom.