''Taking Care'', also known as ''Prescriptions for Murder'', is a

Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...

drama film, directed by

Clarke Mackey Clarke Mackey (born September 30, 1950) is a Canadian filmmaker, author, and educator. He is known for his first feature film, ''The Only Thing You Know'' (1972), and for the focus in his filmmaking and writing on vernacular culture. His book on t ...

and released in 1987."Hospital film dies in a bed of tedium". ''

Ottawa Citizen The ''Ottawa Citizen'' is an English-language daily newspaper owned by Postmedia Network in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. History Established as ''The Bytown Packet'' in 1845 by William Harris, it was renamed the ''Citizen'' in 1851. The new ...

'', April 29, 1988. Loosely based on the real-life case of Susan Nelles, the film stars

Janet Amos Janet Amos (born 12 September 1944) is a Canadian theatre actress, director, educator and playwright. The daughter of the actress Beth Amos, Janet has led theatre companies as the artistic director of the Blyth Festival (1979-1984 and 1994-1997) ...

as Marie, a

maternity ward Childbirth, also known as labour and delivery, is the ending of pregnancy where one or more babies exits the internal environment of the mother via vaginal delivery or caesarean section. In 2019, there were about 140.11 million births global ...

nurse who is accused of murder after three women die in childbirth under her care, and

Kate Lynch Kate Lynch (born June 29, 1959) is a Canadian film, television and stage actress, drama teacher, theatre director and playwright. Biography In 1980 she won the Genie Award for Best Actress for ''Meatballs''. She was notably adept at improvisation ...

as Angie O'Connell, her colleague who attempts to collect evidence to prove Marie's innocence. The cast also includes

Saul Rubinek Saul Hersh Rubinek (born July 2, 1948) is a German-born Canadian actor, director, producer, and playwright. He is widely known for his television roles, notably Artie Nielsen on ''Warehouse 13,'' Donny Douglas on ''Frasier'', Lon Cohen on ''A N ...

, Barry Flatman,

Jackie Richardson Jackie Richardson (born January 4, 1947) is a Canadian singer and actress. Richardson is known for her screen roles in '' Turning to Stone'', ''The Gospel According to the Blues'', '' The Doodlebops'', and '' Sins of the Father''. She is also kn ...

, Allan Royal and Ron White. The film premiered at the 1987 Toronto International Film Festival. Lynch received a Genie Award nomination for

Best Actress Best Actress is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organisations, festivals, and people's awards to leading actresses in a film, television series, television film or play. The first Best Actress aw ...

at the 9th Genie Awards in 1988."Un zoo and Mermaids top Genie nominations". ''

Toronto Star The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and pa ...

'', February 17, 1988.

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* 1987 films Canadian drama films English-language Canadian films 1980s English-language films 1980s Canadian films {{1980s-Canada-film-stub