The title represents the hopeful, ambitious students at a hospital training school and is primarily a story of the stern discipline and laborious physical and mental toil they endure in order to become nurses and join the White Parade. It is told mainly through the character of June Arden who finds romance with Ronald Hall III on the way, with side stories of the other girls who find failure, success, laughs and tears on the way.

Bastard Out of Carolina
1996
7.2/10

The Safety of Objects
2002
6.5/10

Won't Back Down
2012
6.1/10

Return
2011
6.4/10

Fast Girls
2012
6.1/10

Woman of Straw
1964
6.2/10

Kid Galahad
1962
6.1/10

Jungleland
2020
6.4/10

Above the Rim
1994
7.1/10

A Map of the World
1999
6.0/10

All Together Now
2020
6.7/10

90 Minutes in Heaven
2015
5.9/10

Eleanor the Great
2025
6.9/10

Come Sunday
2018
5.8/10

Babylon
1980
6.9/10

Starving in Suburbia
2014
6.5/10

Reading Lolita in Tehran
2024
7.3/10

Skater Girl
2021
7.2/10

Suburbia
1984
6.7/10

Jawbone
2017
6.2/10
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
2002
6.576/10