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The American Nurse

Directed by Carolyn Jones
2014    81m    PG-13
8.5100%82%
THE AMERICAN NURSE is a heart-warming film that explores some of the biggest issues facing America - aging, war, poverty, prisons - through the work and lives of nurses. It is an examination of real people that will change how we think about nurses and how we wrestle with the challenges of healing America. THE AMERICAN NURSE is an important contribution to America's ongoing conversation about what it means to care. The film follows the paths of five nurses in various practice specialties including Jason Short as he drives up a rugged creek to reach a home-bound cancer patient in Appalachia. Tonia Faust, who runs a prison hospice program where inmates serving life sentences care for their fellow inmates as they're dying. Naomi Cross, as she coaches an ovarian cancer survivor through the Caesarean delivery of her son. Sister Stephen, a nun who runs a nursing home filled with goats, sheep, llamas and chickens, where the entire nursing staff comes together to sing for a dying resident. And Brian McMillion, an Army veteran and former medic, rehabilitating wounded soldiers returning from war.
Cast of The American Nurse
  • Lafayette BallardSelf
  • Stephen BloeslSelf (as Sister Stephen Bloesl)
  • Jason CrossSelf
  • Namoi CrossSelf
  • Nathan CrossSelf
  • Elizabeth ElamSelf
  • Tonia FaustSelf
  • Lydia FletcherSelf
  • Darrell GertenschologerSelf
  • Carolyn JonesSelf (voice)
  • Dane KaimuloaSelf
  • Brian McMillionSelf
  • Mary PraterSelf
  • Mia RegaladoSelf - Narrator
  • Jason ShortSelf - Appalachian Hospice Nurse
  • Felix TrentSelf
  • Paul TrentSelf
  • Rebecca TrentSelf
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