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Yes Nurse! No Nurse! (2004)

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Reviews Counted: 18 Fresh: 9  Rotten:9 Average Rating: 4.8/10
Rated: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Theatrical Release: Sep 3, 2004 Limited
Synopsis:
A fantasy musical recounting the adventures of Nurse Klivia and the residents of her somewhat unusual Rest Home. Their nasty landlord and next-door neighbour Mr Boordevol is eager to have them all evicted so that he can repossess the property. When the Home’s resident “crazy inventor”, The... [More]
A fantasy musical recounting the adventures of Nurse Klivia and the residents of her somewhat unusual Rest Home. Their nasty landlord and next-door neighbour Mr Boordevol is eager to have them all evicted so that he can repossess the property. When the Home’s resident “crazy inventor”, The Engineer, causes yet another explosion, Bourdevol drags them before the local magistrate, but is once again foiled. Pretty Jet encounters Gerrit, a charming young orphan with a compulsion to burgle. Nurse Klivia accepts him as a resident, on condition that he tries to conquer his larcenous obsession and go straight. The Home also acquires a new neighbour, the hairdresser Wouter, who seems to have some mysterious connection with Mr Boordevol’s past which makes both men uneasy. The Engineer tries out on Boordevol his new pill designed to make nasty people nice, but the effect turns out to be short-lasting, and Boordevol is left more vindictive than ever. One night, Boordevol’s house is burgled, and suspicion instantly falls on Gerrit, giving Boordevol a foolproof excuse to demand that the Home be closed down. When Gerrit is proved innocent, things look even worse, since Nurse Klivia herself now becomes prime suspect. But miracles can happen. Thanks to the influence of hairdresser Wouter and the reactions of the neighbours, Boordevol has a surprising change of heart. -- © Regent Releasing [Less]

Genre: Musical & Performing Arts

Starring: Loes Luca, Paul Kooij, Paul de Leeuw

Director: Pieter Kramer

DVD Info

Release:

Feb 22, 2005

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen - 1.85

Audio:

  • Dolby 2.0 Surround - Dutch

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01/15/05 10:19 PM
Christopher Null
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Sweet and innocent to a fault, the wild tangents the movie takes us on ultimately feel strange for the sake of being strange

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12/28/04 06:20 PM
Christopher Null
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Yes Nurse, No Nurse is fun -- if you get into its groove.

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10/29/04 03:29 PM
Marta Barber
Miami Herald
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A campy, brightly colored musical comedy based on a popular '60s Dutch sitcom that's unlike any other film out there.

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10/29/04 02:30 PM
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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This nonsensical Dutch movie musical rides on the dubious assumption that camp and infantilism are the same thing.

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10/28/04 06:24 PM
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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Styles range from cabaret to barbershop to toe-tapping bubblegum, and the rainy-day serenade at the start nods Cherbourgward, with a soupçon of Low Countries sass.

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10/26/04 12:18 PM
Ed Park
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Harmless, colorful fluff with community-theater production values.

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10/22/04 04:10 PM
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Director Pieter Kramer successfully reproduces the bright colors and cheerful ambiance of musical comedies of the 1950s and '60s.

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10/08/04 03:58 PM
Maitland McDonagh
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At once corny and precious, its humor seems too heavily ethnic to travel well.

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10/08/04 03:46 PM
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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This cranky non-Dutchman came to wish the director had cut a couple of tunes: A little of this goes a long way.

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10/07/04 01:47 PM
Chuck Wilson
L.A. Weekly
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Maintains a likable, breezy tone throughout but looks increasingly threadbare of real inspiration or originality as it proceeds.

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09/10/04 05:46 PM
Derek Elley
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The characters are all directed to play their goofy expressions for the back row, which might have befitted the boards but is offputting in the close-ups of camera. Moreover, the story is slight.

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09/05/04 10:16 PM
Kim Williamson
Boxoffice Magazine
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Neither witty nor inventive enough to hold your interest for its belabored 100-minute running time.

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09/04/04 10:20 PM
Timothy Knight
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A pleasant enough movie whose overt charm sometimes works against it.

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09/03/04 02:28 PM
John McMurtrie
San Francisco Chronicle
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Perhaps it's all in the translation, but Yes Nurse! No Nurse! makes only a so-so musical...[enhanced by] campy, candy-colored design...

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09/03/04 10:24 AM
Peter Canavese
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Goofy, episodic and intermittently charming.

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09/02/04 02:41 PM
Glenn Lovell
San Jose Mercury News
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The songs are shrill and cloying (if mercifully forgettable), the choreography is embarrassing, and the comedy sets a new global standard for puerility -- and not in a fun way.

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08/07/04 08:51 AM
Cliff Doerksen
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