The American Nurse (2014)
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.
Director: Carolyn Jones
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Lafayette Ballard as Self |
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Stephen Bloesl as Self (as Sister Stephen Bloesl) |
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Jason Cross as Self |
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Namoi Cross as Self |
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Nathan Cross as Self |
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Elizabeth Elam as Self |
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Tonia Faust as Self |
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Lydia Fletcher as Self |
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Darrell Gertenschologer as Self |
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Carolyn Jones as Self (voice) |
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Dane Kaimuloa as Self |
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Brian McMillion as Self |
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Mary Prater as Self |
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Mia Regalado as Self - Narrator |
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Jason Short as Self - Appalachian Hospice Nurse |
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Felix Trent as Self |
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Paul Trent as Self |
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Rebecca Trent as Self |
| Writing | Carolyn Jones | Story |
| Directing | Carolyn Jones | Director |
| Editing | Steve Heffner | Editor |
| Editing | Isabel Sadurni | Editor |
| Production | Carolyn Jones | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Hayes Greenfield | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Jaka Vinšek | Director of Photography |
| Production | Candace Thompson | Associate Producer |
| Production | Lisa Frank | Producer |
