Florence Nightingale

2008

Action / Drama

Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 38%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 38% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.4/10 10 190 190

period drama florence nightingale 19th century christian film

Plot summary

Reflective drama of pioneering nurse, writer and noted statistician Florence Nightingale

Director

Norman Stone Photo
Norman Stone

Top cast

Lorraine Cheshire Photo
Lorraine Cheshire as Watson
Catherine Tyldesley Photo
Catherine Tyldesley as Parthenope
Michael Pennington Photo
Michael Pennington as Wen
Laura Fraser Photo
Laura Fraser as Florence Nightingale
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548.68 MB
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English 2.0
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25 fps
12 hr 59 min
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1018.6 MB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
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25 fps
12 hr 59 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jda28 6 / 10

Not really worth the effort

Based on her true-life letters and memoirs (as the excessive opening declaratives inform us), 'Florence Nightingale' is a different kind of period-drama chronicling the feminist icon's early days and aspirations to become a nurse, and continuing to her subsequent breakdown following the aid she gave in the Crimean War.A major fault of this drama is the patchy, inconsistent writing; colloquialisms and informal conversation leave it seeming out of touch with the era, and grating fantasy sequences seem to have been freshly picked out of a badly performed pantomime. The director's unwise decision to inter-cut between time eras so frequently also only results in unnecessary confusion, and breaking the fourth wall in Nightingale's letters delivery fractures the illusion that what we are watching took place long before the present.Laura Fraser is bold and refreshing in the eponymous role, but she lacks the strength to fully-fledge her character – she could quite simply be any well-spoken women from the period, and I imagined someone such as Helena Bonham Carter or Olivia Williams would have been more suited to the role, fitting comfortably into the character of Florence Nightingale with more power and resonance. On a positive note, considering this is pre-watershed television, the director does manage to convey the horrific nature of battle rather well, and it is an interesting, often atmospheric take on a well-known figurehead. The Victorian aesthetics are also very well established, and there are some fine supporting performances among the rest of the cast.It's not a bad effort, but at a mere sixty minutes the drama felt far longer than necessary thanks to turgid pacing and a lack of fluency, cohesion and dramatic tension. There's nothing innovative or inspiring here, and with far better, more authentic period-drama available it seems an unexciting, bland waste of an hour.
Reviewed by sabre_pg 1 / 10

Terrible!

One of the worst costume drama's I've seen in years! The acting was terrible. the script was terrible, the screenplay was dull and the characters seem like they had been plucked out of the 21st century and thrown back in time! Laura Fraser was useless, good looking, but useless. She plays the strong modern woman type which is totally out of context for the time, and all the male characters are weak.The only saving grace for this movie is the filming location of Croxteth Hall in Liverpool, which I used to visit quite frequently as a boy living in Liverpool,UK.So... bad acting, bad script, and awful characters with poor delivery! anyone who loves true to life accurate historical films will be shocked and disgusted! anyone who has no clue or doesn't care about history, especially English history, may see it in a more entertaining light.Americans will love it!
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