Will a 18-55mm Canon lens from a film camera work for a Nikon D5000?

I want to purchase a Nikon D5000, and I already have a 18-55mm lens from my Canon EOS Rebel (it's a film camera), and I want to know if I would have to purchase the D5000 with the lens AND the body, or if I could just use the same lens, but have a different body… This way, I, hopefully, save money.

Canon Lens do not fit on Nikon Cameras out of the box but you can buy a adapter ring to make it fit.
If the lens has Autofocus it will probably no longer work. Also controlling the Aperture will probably not work unless the lens has a aperture ring.

Why not get a Canon dSLR? There are lots of digital Rebel and non-Rebel models to choose from. That way you will surely save money. Sometimes, the adapter will cost more than the lens itself.

1. The Canon 18-55 is an EF-S lens, and it will not work on a film body. If you bought the film body with that lens attached, you got ripped off.

2. You can't adapt a Canon lens to a Nikon camera. You can go the other way, Nikon to Canon, but that's it. Canon lenses are too big across the mount area to fit a Nikon body.

3. Get the proper Nikkor lens to mount on your Nikon camera. The 18-55 VR or 18-105 VR, whichever it comes with.

Canon lenses do not work with Nikons. But I'm very surprised that you have a 18 to 55mm lens with a film camera since such a lens would be almost impossible to design to cover the full frame of a film camera, and would be hugely bulky. Does that lens cover the full film frame at the wide-angle end, around 18 to 24mm, without black corners or blurry edges? Did you get that Canon second hand?