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Netflix Thriller ‘The Good Nurse’ Based On True Story About N.J.

Author Autumn Hawkins
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 18: (L-R) Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain attend Netflix's "The Good Nurse" New York Screening at Paris Theater on October 18, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)

Netflix’s newest thriller The Good Nurse is based on a true story based in New Jersey. The streaming giant’s chilling new film recalls the horrors of New Jersey serial killer Charles Cullen. Over his 16-year-long career as a nurse, Cullen was convicted of murdering dozens of patients. However, The Good Nurse will be focusing on the heroic deed of nurse Amy Loughren, who helped put a stop to Cullen’s heinous acts.

“Watching the movie gave me permission to be proud of myself,” Loughren told PEOPLE. “I showed up as a mom. I showed up as a nurse. I showed up as a friend. The only reason Charlie is not still murdering is because of my friendship with him.”

The Netflix film is based on the 2014 Charles Graeber book The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder. Netflix tapped  Jessica Chastain as Loughren, Eddie Redmayne as Cullen, Nnamdi Asomugha as Detective Danny Baldwin, and Noah Emmerich as Det. Tim Braun.

Up until 2003, Loughren served as a nurse in the Intensive Care Unit at Somerset Hospital in New Jersey. She was later contacted by two detectives suggesting that her coworker could be a serial killer.

Cullen grew up in West Orange and after the death of his parents he began to suffer from depression and attempted suicide several times, The New York Times reports. Following his medical discharge from the Navy in 1984, Cullen enrolled as a student at Mountainside Hospital’s nursing school in Montclair, New Jersey, per The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder via PEOPLE. After his graduation in 1986, he landed a job in the burn unit at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New Jersey — where his first murder took place. He killed patients by injecting their IV bags with lethal doses of insulin and heart medications.

Cullen later worked at hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and began his killing spree at Somerset Medical Center in New Jesey.  Following his confession to the crimes he committed at the hospital, he was convicted of 29 murders and was sentenced to 11 consecutive life sentences in 2006. Currently, Cullen is serving a life sentence at New Jersey State Prison in Trenton as part of an agreement with prosecutors to help them identify his victims, per NJ.com.

The Good Nurse is currently in theaters and will debut on Netflix on Oct. 26.

Check out the trailer below:

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Autumn Hawkins is the National Hip-Hop and R&B writer for Beasley Media, currently residing in New Jersey. Prior to working at Beasley Media, she was in broadcast news as an entertainment producer. When she's not impatiently waiting for Beyoncé to drop new music, she is reading, shopping, or planning a vacation.

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