Nurse Betty
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.
Production
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Trailers & Videos
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Cast
Morgan Freeman
Charlie
Renée Zellweger
Betty
Chris Rock
Wesley
Greg Kinnear
Dr. David Ravell
Tia Texada
Rosa
Pruitt Taylor Vince
Ballard
Allison Janney
Lyla
Kathleen Wilhoite
Sue Ann
Elizabeth Mitchell
Chloe
Susan Barnes
Darlene
Sung-Hi Lee
Jasmine
Laird Macintosh
Dr. Lonnie Walsh
Steven Gilborn
Blake
Jenny Gago
Mercedes
Sheila Kelley
Joyce
Matthew Cowles
Merle
Wayne Tippit
Doctor
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Reviews
Wuchak
**_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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