Nurse Betty Movie Review 2000

Small-time waitress Betty (Zellweger) fantasizes about her favorite soap opera doc David Ravell (Kinnear). But she confuses fantasy and reality after witnessing the murder of her sleazoid husband (Eckhart) over a drug deal and thinks she's a character in the soap herself. So she travels to Hollywood to be reunited with her true love, trailed by her husband's two killers (Rock and Freeman). LaBute's unpredictable black comedy represents a departure from his previous claustrophobic, misanthropic work, but retains a cynical edge. Zellweger and Freeman stand out in a stellar cast that includes Kinnear at his smarmy best.

Distribution

USA Home Entertainment, 1 W. Forest, Englewood, NJ 07631-4004, Phone: (201)871-1000, URL: http://www.polygram-us.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 110 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Black Comedy, Road Trip, Waiters & Waitresses, Doctors & Nurses, Hit Men/Women, Sanity Check, Director/Star Teams: LaBute & Eckhart

Screenplay

John C. Richards

Cast

Renee Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock, Greg Kinnear, Aaron Eckhart, Crispin Glover, Allison Janney, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Kathleen Wilhoite, Harriet Harris, Susan Barnes, Sheila Kelley, Tia Texada

Cinematography

Jean-Yves Escoffier

Director

Neil LaBute

Music

Rolfe Kent

Awards

Golden Globes 2001: Actress--Mus./Comedy (Zellweger).