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The Cure

  • TV Movie
  • 2019
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
153
YOUR RATING
Sue Johnston and Sian Brooke in The Cure (2019)
Drama

Factually based drama about the true story of Julie Bailey, an ordinary woman from Stafford who blows the whistle on one of the worst scandals in the history of the NHS. After witnessing the... Read allFactually based drama about the true story of Julie Bailey, an ordinary woman from Stafford who blows the whistle on one of the worst scandals in the history of the NHS. After witnessing the appalling neglect of her mother and other patients, Julie launches a local campaign group... Read allFactually based drama about the true story of Julie Bailey, an ordinary woman from Stafford who blows the whistle on one of the worst scandals in the history of the NHS. After witnessing the appalling neglect of her mother and other patients, Julie launches a local campaign group to expose the awful truth at Stafford Hospital. Despite local hostility, threats and inti... Read all

  • Director
    • Bruce Goodison
  • Writer
    • Amanda Duke
  • Stars
    • Simon Armstrong
    • Russell Boulter
    • Sian Brooke
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.2/10
    153
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Bruce Goodison
    • Writer
      • Amanda Duke
    • Stars
      • Simon Armstrong
      • Russell Boulter
      • Sian Brooke
    • 7User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Simon Armstrong
    Simon Armstrong
    • Phillip Jones
    Russell Boulter
    Russell Boulter
    • Ken Lownds
    Sian Brooke
    Sian Brooke
    • Julie Bailey
    Lu Corfield
    Lu Corfield
    • Ruth
    Dionne Draper
    Dionne Draper
    • Paramedic
    Georgie Glen
    Georgie Glen
    • Heather Wood
    Lucy Greenhalgh
    Lucy Greenhalgh
    • Tamsin
    Sandra Huggett
    Sandra Huggett
    • Nurse Botham
    Sue Johnston
    Sue Johnston
    • Bella Bailey
    Tamla Kari
    Tamla Kari
    • Helene Donnelly
    Ranjit Krishnamma
    Ranjit Krishnamma
    • Mr. Salim
    Alex Macqueen
    Alex Macqueen
    • Martin Yeates
    Amy Morgan
    • Sammy Bailey
    Jared Morgan
    Jared Morgan
    • Elderly Man
    Noof Ousellam
    Noof Ousellam
    • Mr. Mohindra
    • (as Noof McEwan)
    Janet Pearce
    • The Endoscopy Nurse
    Tim Prior
    • Councillor 2
    Hannah Rae
    Hannah Rae
    • Laura
    • Director
      • Bruce Goodison
    • Writer
      • Amanda Duke
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    10a-shoesmith-677-488076

    Even reviews show you the system is rotten

    I've never written a review before. Having just watched The Cure, it is an outstanding film and everyone associated with it should take huge credit.

    The core reason for my post is that at the time of writing three of the five reviews for The Cure are 1/10 that claim exaggeration, untruths and "it wasn't really that bad". It is precisely this type of blasé attitude and a culture of cover up and unwillingness to listen and learn that caused the problems at Mid Staffs in the first place.

    God bless Julie Bailey.
    6PrincessLilibet

    It's a TV movie. That sort of says it all.

    As a non-Brit, I found it enlightening, but there really is not much more to say. Except perhaps that Sian Brooke and Sue Johnston carry the whole thing and that the phrase "moustache-twirling villains" kept coming to mind during the scenes with the board of trustees. Oh, and also, thank God for whistleblowers, wherever they stand up in the world!
    1andy-roberts12

    Mostly exaggerated

    I have worked for Stafford hospital for 11 years so just before this all happened and all I can say is I have never seen any of the stuff that is in the program apart from staffing issues which could be because of the management prioritising cost over care or it's because no staff want to work here because of stuff like this. This ether means it's all vastly exaggerated or the hospital has got a lot better ether way this program didn't need to be made and all it's done is drag the hospital through more dirt and what for profit?
    1pauline-43457

    Rubbish

    This is an awful film, exaggerated to the extreme. Showing lies and humiliation to staff. Stafford Hospital is and never has been as bad as it has been made out to be. This should never have been made as it is just slander
    10LawlessHeart123

    God bless Julie Bailey.

    Absolutely brilliant drama and all the more disturbing that it is based on actual first hand records and accounts of the horrors at Mid Staffs.

    Shame on the reviewers who try to defend the disgusting behaviour of the trust in question.

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      Filmed in and around Bristol. Julie's cafe is located in Westbury on Trym.

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