Underplayed Gems

Nurse.Fighter.Boy (2008)

Nurse.Fighter.Boy poster
Directed by
Charles Officer
Genre
drama film, boxing film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 33m
Rating
4.7 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A single mother with sickle cell disease works as a night-shift nurse and starts a relationship with a boxer. Together they create a makeshift family for her young son.

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What happens

Nurse.Fighter.Boy is a 2008 Canadian drama film, directed by Charles Officer. The film stars Karen LeBlanc as Jude, a widowed single mother undergoing treatment for sickle cell disease. While working as a night-shift nurse to support her son Ciel (Daniel J. Gordon), she meets and enters into a relationship with Silence (Clark Johnson), a troubled and brooding boxer who becomes a father figure for the young boy. The film's cast also includes Walter Borden, Araya Mengesha, Elizabeth Saunders and Ndidi Onukwulu. The film premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival, and screened at several other film festivals before going into commercial release in February 2009. It was released on DVD in June 2009, with bonus features including a documentary on the making of the film and Officer's short films Short Hymn, Silent War and Urda/Bone. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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