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Nurse Betty

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6.1/10 • 407

2000-08-301h 48m

ComedyCrimeThrillerDramaRomance

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

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.

Directors
Neil LaBute
Editors
Steven Weisberg

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Morgan Freeman

    Morgan Freeman

    Charlie

  2. Renée Zellweger

    Renée Zellweger

    Betty

  3. Chris Rock

    Chris Rock

    Wesley

  4. Greg Kinnear

    Greg Kinnear

    Dr. David Ravell

  5. Aaron Eckhart

    Aaron Eckhart

    Del

  6. Tia Texada

    Tia Texada

    Rosa

  7. Crispin Glover

    Crispin Glover

    Roy

  8. Pruitt Taylor Vince

    Pruitt Taylor Vince

    Ballard

  9. Allison Janney

    Allison Janney

    Lyla

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Wuchak

Dec 6, 2023

6/10

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 that the movie's about Betty and Charlie and their romantic idealism of people they've never met. At the end of the day this is an offbeat Tarantino-esque flick that's half-good and half-meh. The "meh" reaction is mostly due to its curiosities. Thankfully, it has depth and plays better on repeat viewings. The movie runs about one hour, 50 minutes, and was shot in Los Angeles; Durango, Colorado; Grand Canyon, Arizona; and Rome, Italy (closing scene). GRADE: B-/C+

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$24,000,000.00
Revenue
$29,364,989.00
Keywords
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