The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

1/24/18. Just finished watching the entire 7 seasons of Nurse Jackie. Wow. What a series! This is probably one of the best medical drama series I have seen, even though it is called a dramedy. Did not exactly liked the ending, but it was right for the series. Rather than call this Nurse Jackie, perhaps, they should have called it Jackie Peyton Addict, RN. The entire series was basically about a female addict who was a great nurse, despite her addiction and how she used drugs to deal with her hectic life. It is a well-done cautionary tale of how drug addiction ruins lives of those addicted and those who try to love and help them. Wonderful casting, great screenwriting and realistic depictions of emergency room medicine. Falco was excellent as Nurse Jackie and I am surprised she did not win more awards for her realistic portrayal of a high-functioning junkie until she wasn't. The 7 seasons just flew by. Catch this when you can.

The premise of this show is a study of addiction in a Nurse who can function while still being an addict. The focus is supposed to be on the characters and their interaction with one another. The problem is that it's set in a hospital where the medical situations are totally implausible and unbelievable. Many of the things that the nurse does in the series would just not be possible in a hospital. She knows more than the doctors, speaks to people like she's in charge etc. While I'm all for strong female leads in series, they have to be put in believable situations, not constantly living in a fantasy world. This departure from reality gets worse as the series progresses. If attention had been paid to detail, and maybe the show had a medical consultant to advise on the situations, it might have a bit more credibility.

Edie Falco is just superb in this TV drama. She makes the character of Nurse Jackie very realistic. She has human flaws like all of us.The show has a perfect combination of lightheartedness, drama and reality to make it absorbing. I think they have done the right thing by keeping it to 30 minutes - it leaves you wanting more. Had it been an hour long show you would need a lot more characters to keep your interest.Knowing people in the nursing profession, Edie does a splendid job in portraying a fully qualified Nurse. She sounds like one and she looks like one (and I don't mean that in a stereotypical way!).She shows the challenges of mixing a home and personal life and dealing with all the periphery that entails. This is a well scripted, well acted TV drama - one of the few that I look forward to each episode! I've not enjoyed a TV drama as much since Friends and Dexter. I highly recommend it if you haven't seen it yet. Do watch it from the start though!!!

What an accomplishment the creators of this quirky but important series achieved in taking it to seven seasons. Unlike in other long term series, it ended with a bang and not a whimper. I binge-watched the final season on DVD and it was one of the best. Edie Falco, as Jackie, is an incredible talent. On the surface, her character is someone you or I would meet on the street, a fit and competent ER nurse with a partner and kids. She is adored by her friends, saves lives and goes the extra mile when patients have a need or request. But underneath, she is desperately concealing a raging drug habit, popping pills whenever she can duck into an alcove or the bathroom, and sometimes while walking down a corridor. She is prepared to lie to, and hurt, her closest loved ones in order to maintain her drug habit, and to avoid punishment and blame. The seventh, and final, season sees her facing the annihilation of her career, and the hospital threatened with closure. It's a very dark lot of episodes indeed. Much less kooky and light than previous seasons. Even the usually bubbly Nurse Zoe despairs at how low Jackie has fallen. I love how the writers never fall into the trap of totally condemning Jackie for her failings. Her friends and family recognise that even though she's deeply flawed, they still love her and they want her around. Even Jackie's bizarre romance with the upbeat pharmacist cum drug dealer Eddie (Paul Schulze) is portrayed with warmth and affection, even though technically his support of her habit is destroying them both. In effect, Jackie and Eddie are co-dependent. But who is to say it's not a form of love? Eddie accepts and loves Jackie just as she is, and in real life, drug addicts like Jackie do have boyfriends. It's probably best, morally, that Jackie experiences some really serious consequences of her habit and deceptions in this season, although the writers don't hit you over the head with it. But the underlying message is, if you want to do drugs and lie and deceive people, and are essentially unrepentant, like Jackie, there is a price to pay.