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Pieter Kramer's musical comedy Ja Zuster Nee Zuster (Yes Nurse! No Nurse!) is an adaptation of a popular 1960s Dutch television series. Loes Luca portrays Klivia, who runs a nursing home filled with c... read more read more...olorful eccentrics. Complicating Klivia's life is professional thief Gerrit (Waldemar Torenstra), who is pursuing her daughter, Jet (Tjitske Reidinga). Boordevol (Paul R. Kooij) lives near the nursing home and constantly brings legal complaints against Klivia due to the noise coming from the nursing home. Yes Nurse! No Nurse! was screened in competition at the 2003 Berlin Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 40 min.

Directed by: Pieter Kramer

Release Date: September 3, 2004

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DVD Release Date: February 22, 2005

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  • February 9, 2010
    This was the last film I watched with Alan at the Landmark Theater in Royal Oak, Michigan, one week before his untimely death. I remember that everyone was smiling and laughing as they left the theater. I have watched it again since then, just because it's a really funny, quirky... read more film. In the Netherlands it would probably get a G rating. In the U.S.A., I'm not so sure. Enjoy!
  • July 9, 2007
    Hilarious movie! Don't worry about the subtitles because you don't noticed them. The movie is too funny!

Critic Reviews


Lou Lumenick
October 29, 2004
Lou Lumenick, New York Post

A campy, brightly colored musical comedy based on a popular '60s Dutch sitcom that's unlike any other film out there.

Stephen Holden
October 28, 2004
Stephen Holden, New York Times

This nonsensical Dutch movie musical rides on the dubious assumption that camp and infantilism are the same thing. Full Review

Ed Park
October 26, 2004
Ed Park, Village Voice

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. Full Review

Kevin Thomas
October 8, 2004
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

At once corny and precious, its humor seems too heavily ethnic to travel well. Full Review

Derek Elley
September 10, 2004
Derek Elley, Variety

Maintains a likable, breezy tone throughout but looks increasingly threadbare of real inspiration or originality as it proceeds. Full Review

John McMurtrie
September 3, 2004
John McMurtrie, San Francisco Chronicle

A pleasant enough movie whose overt charm sometimes works against it. Full Review

Glenn Lovell
September 2, 2004
Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News

Goofy, episodic and intermittently charming.

Cliff Doerksen
August 7, 2004
Cliff Doerksen, Chicago Reader

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. Full Review

Christopher Null
December 28, 2004
Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com

Sweet and innocent to a fault, the wild tangents the movie takes us on ultimately feel strange for the sake of being strange Full Review

Marta Barber
October 29, 2004
Marta Barber, Miami Herald

Yes Nurse, No Nurse is fun -- if you get into its groove. Full Review

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