A trusted colleague becomes the center of suspicion when patients begin dying under unexplained circumstances. The Good Nurse turns a real-life hospital investigation into a tense character study of two coworkers on opposite sides of the truth.
What is The Good Nurse about?
Amy, a hardworking nurse already carrying a heavy personal burden, begins noticing a troubling pattern of unexplained patient deaths on her ward. As doubts grow around a colleague she has come to trust, Amy finds herself pulled into a quiet, dangerous investigation that puts her own safety and career at risk. Drawing on true events, the film follows her effort to gather proof without knowing exactly who she can rely on inside the hospital's walls. Rather than leaning on shock, the story builds its tension through procedure, hesitation, and the slow unraveling of trust between two people who once relied on each other.
About the cast
Jessica Chastain plays Amy opposite Eddie Redmayne as her colleague, with Noah Emmerich, Nnamdi Asomugha, Kim Dickens, Devyn McDowell, Ajay Naidu, and Maria Dizzia rounding out the hospital staff and investigators around them.
Context & significance
Director Tobias Lindholm, known for grounded, procedural storytelling, brings a restrained approach to this 2022 crime drama, favoring quiet observation over sensationalism. Because the story is rooted in true events, the film spends as much time on hospital bureaucracy and the mechanics of an internal investigation as it does on the central mystery. That patience gives the two central performances room to breathe, letting small gestures and pauses carry as much weight as any single piece of evidence.
Watching The Good Nurse on Ktime
The Good Nurse is available on K-Time with a free account login, and this page itself is free to browse without signing in. Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles are both available, giving Farsi-speaking viewers an easy way to follow this true-events crime drama in their own language.