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Nurse Betty (2000)

R Aug 30, 2000 Comedy, Crime, Thriller, Drama, Romance 1h 48m
User Score
61%
409 votes
Internet Movie Database
63%
Rotten Tomatoes
83%
Metacritic
6900%

She's chasing a dream... they're chasing her.

Overview

What happens when a person decides that life is merely a state of mind? If you're Betty, a small-town waitress and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kansas, you refuse to believe that you can't be with the love of your life just because he doesn't really exist. After all, life is no excuse for not living. Traumatized by a savage event, Betty enters into a fugue state that allows -- even encourages -- her to keep functioning... in a kind of alternate reality.

Neil LaBute
Director
John C. Richards
Screenplay
James Flamberg
Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman

Charlie
Renée Zellweger
Renée Zellweger

Betty
Chris Rock
Chris Rock

Wesley
Greg Kinnear
Greg Kinnear

Dr. David Ravell
Aaron Eckhart
Aaron Eckhart

Del
Tia Texada
Tia Texada

Rosa
Crispin Glover
Crispin Glover

Roy
Pruitt Taylor Vince
Pruitt Taylor Vince

Ballard
Allison Janney
Allison Janney

Lyla

Full Cast & Crew

Media

UK Re-Release Trailer
UK Re-Release Trailer
Trailer
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Reviews

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A review by Wuchak
Written on December 6, 2023

**_Oddball dramedy about two people in love with their unreal fantasies_**

A small town waitress in Kansas (Renée Zellweger) is married to a jerk car salesman, but enjoys a soap opera in which she fantasies about the hero-doctor on the show (Greg Kinnear). Meanwhile a criminal duo (Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock) chases the woman to Los Angeles whereupon the leader seems to develop a thing for her.

"Nurse Betty" (2000) is part dramedy, part road movie, part crime drama, part romcom and part black comedy. While it's rarely laugh-out loud, it's pretty consistently amusing. What throws it off is that it's such an eccentric mixture viewers don't know how to take it, especially with a fairly radical scalping sequence (and I don't mean scalping tickets). It helps, though, when you grasp th...

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