Night Nurse.        4 suns

Another entry in the NEXT section was Night Nurse, by Georgia Bernstein who is from Northbrook, Illinois.  The film can be described as an erotic thriller with a comedic tone. The setting is the night shift at a retirement home where the elderly residents are cared for by a team of nurses. A new nurse, Eleni joins the staff and is assigned to take care of Douglas, a man in his seventies.  Eleni is soon persuaded by Douglas to participate in a scheme where elderly men in the area are called on the phone and made to believe that she is their granddaughter and she has been in an accident and is being held by the police.  The men must send money to help her out.  Not only does she go along with the scam, but the two engage in erotic sexual behavior during the calls.  (It’s very steamy.) Eleni is not the only nurse to participate as most of the nurses are included in this erotic club. Douglas gets away with this by feigning dementia, so the administrators have no suspicion about the scheme (even though Douglas has bought a new convertible and drives his harem of nurses around in it.  Don’t think about it too much.) Mimi Rogers of erotic movie fame with films such as Someone to Watch Over Me, Desperate Hours and Full Body Massage plays the role of the doctor in charge of the home. The movie is a nice little diversion to enjoy. The movie was made with a very small budget. The director said that she hired personal friends as the nurses and had a family connection to Rogers.  She used her grandmother’s house as the movie set.  She got the idea for the movie after someone made an attempt to scam her grandmother out of money by using such a scheme.