When small-town waitress Betty Sizemore (Renee Zellweger) accidentally witnesses the grisly murder of her underhanded car-dealing husband (Aaron Eckhart), she copes with the trauma... more
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Advantages: Intresting, Great performances, quirky Disadvantages: Nothing
...that she is a real nurse and has for some reason lost her way. She gets to L.A and from a bizarre set of circumstances, manages to save a patient who has been wounded in a terrorist attack; she gets a job and a flat with her patient’s sister.
She meets her all time idol, but how will he deal with, this crazy and deranged fan? And will the two hit men, who are following her through the country, catch up with her?
The ending is brilliantly funny, ... ...performances that they do.
Production Values:
Nurse Betty has fantastic production values, making the Grand Canyon look extremely beautiful. Everything about this film is done with thought and style.
Availability/ Price
Amazon.co.uk: 17.95 on DVD
Play.com (UK): 7.99 on DVD
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Advantages: Amusing and diverting Disadvantages: But quite strange really, and some parts are pretty gory
...and quite disturbing places.
Nurse Betty is the story of a downtrodden housewife and waitress, Betty Sizemore (excellently portrayed by Renee Zellweger), who is stuck in a dead-end marriage to a philandering and misogynistic car dealer, Del. Not only does he sleep around – the first sight the viewer has of him is as he is getting down to business with his secretary – but he also sports a haircut that is just about to cross that deadly ... ...to condemn him.
The other staff at the diner where Betty works have clubbed together to get her money to take the nursing course that she gave up to marry her no-hoper of a husband. But not only does Del not care that he has done nothing for his wife’s birthday, he actually goes out on a business deal on the very same evening. Betty doesn’t really mind though, as she is obsessed with ‘A Reason to Love’, a soap opera set in ...
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Advantages: Renee Zellwegger, Morgan Freeman Disadvantages: violent scene, very unsettling
Nurse Betty is about a sweet natured young woman, Betty Sizemore, (Renee Zellweger). Betty works as a waitress, stuck in small town Kansas, with a jerk of a husband (Arron Eckhart). Bettys only joy in live is the soap opera “A Reason to Love.” When she witnesses her car salesman husband being scalped and killed by two hitman (Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock). She suffers post-traumatic syndrome, this leads to her becoming delusional and ... ...in “A Reason to Love” (Greg Kinnear). Through the delusion and trauma she also believes that the soap is real and sets off across country to find the hospital where he works. The hitmen (Freeman and Rock) pursue her looking for the missing drugs that her husband stole. Freemans character is about to retire after the job and becomes increasingly obsessed with Betty.
This is different from a typical Neil La Bute film. There is less misogyny ...
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Advantages: Rock and Freedman combine well, a funny film Disadvantages: Betty's husband was bumped off too soon, a slightly bitter comedy
Renee Zwellwenger plays Betty, a small-town waitress with an unloving sleazebag of a husband who has constant affairs and is generally not a very nice piece of work. All she has to live for is to watch "A Reason to Love", a soap set in a hospital in LA with its dishy lead, a tough but tender doctor. The thing that she would like most in the world would be to meet him, woo him and marry him and live happily ever after.
One day, her life is turned ... ...shady drug deals with two hitmen, a father and son team played by Morgan Freedman and Chris Rock. They take exception to him and kill him in his home. Betty sees this cowering behind the door. She decides to live out her dream, she goes to the car lot where her husband worked and takes the first car she sees. Unfortunately there is a large stash of cocaine inside which the hitmen want. However, they have no idea where she went.
Betty arrives in ...
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...THEATRES: SEPTEMBER 8, 2000 (NATIONAL) NURSE BETTY is a fiery comedy from director Neil LaBute (IN THE COMPANY OF MEN, YOUR FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS). Betty Sizemore (Renee Zellweger), a waitress in a small Kansas town who lives vicariously through her favorite soap opera stars, fantasizes about a perfect life like that of the doctors and nurses on the tv show, "A Reason to Love." When her husband, Del (Aaron Eckhart), brings an illegal business deal ...
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Actor(s): Morgan Freeman, Condemned, Renee Zellweger, Chris Rock, Aaron Eckhart, Greg Kinnear, Crispin Glover, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Tia Texada
Director(s): Neil Labute
Genre: Comedy
Classification: 18 years and over
Production Year: 2000
Running Time: 1 hour 46 minutes
Video Category: Feature Film
Plot: Betty isn't happy, she's married to a second hand car dealer and works as a waitress. What she really yearns for is to run away with a Doctor on a television hospital drama...
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): PATHE DISTRIBUTION; 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Release date: 03/09/2001
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: P 9015 DVD
Editor: Steven Weisberg, Joel Plotch
Barcode: 5060002830086
Production Designer: Charles Breen
Screenwriter: James Flamberg, John Richards
Composer: Rolfe Kent
Director of Photography: Jean-Yves Escoffier
Music: Rolfe Kent
Producer: Steve Golin, Gail Mutrux, Rolfe Kent
Costume Designer: Lynnette Meyer
Languages
Main Language: English
Hearing Impaired Language: English
Technical information
Special Features: Audio Commentary - 1. Neil LaBute - Director and Cast, 2. Neil LaBute - Director and Crew, Bonus Feature - A REASON TO LOVE Soap Segments, Deleted Scenes, Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 Wide Screen
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
Dubbing Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 English
DVD Description
When small-town waitress Betty Sizemore (Renee Zellweger) accidentally witnesses the grisly murder of her underhanded car-dealing husband (Aaron Eckhart), she copes with the trauma by retreating into a dreamlike state. Not only is Betty completely in denial about her husband's death, but she now believes she is the onetime love of her favorite soap opera character, Dr. David Ravell (Greg Kinnear). Leaving her Kansas home in one of her husband's used cars to "reunite" with the doctor, Betty unwittingly carries drugs that the killers (Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock) are after. As Betty arrives in Los Angeles to seek out the fictional Dr. Ravell, the hit men aren't far behind. Director Neil LaBute's third feature combines elements of thrillers, romance flicks, and road movies into a unique film. Unlike the emotional brutality present in his previous films (IN THE COMPANY OF MEN and YOUR FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS), the violence in NURSE BETTY is physical and brief, quickly giving way to a more lighthearted comedic tone. As the title character, Zellweger is sweet, determined, and utterly charming, while Freeman and Rock are perfectly suited for their offbeat hit-men roles. With its clever script and sure-handed direction, NURSE BETTY makes for a winning oddball comedy about the fine line between fantasy and reality.
Professional reviews
Review: "...Zellweger is muffin-fresh....The lines between reality and fantasy, goodness and violence, have rarely been so beatifully drawn as in this tangy dark comedy..." -- Rating: A (Entertainment Weekly, p.53, 22/09/2000)
Ranked #6 in Entertainment Weekly's "Lisa Schwarzbaum's BEST MOVIES OF 2000" (Entertainment Weekly, pp.106-17, 22/12/2000)
"...Deserving of accolades....NURSE BETTY is alternately funny, scary and deeply poignant, and it confirms LaBute as one of the most exciting new talents to galvanize the movies..." (Movieline, pp.32-34, 01/10/2000)
"...[NURSE BETTY] produces that shivery feeling when your heart melts but at the same moment you want to burst out laughing....Ms. Zellweger's Betty [is] a perfectly blended mixture of sweetness, innocence, and stubborn determination....A triumph..." (New York Times, pp.E1-26, 08/09/2000)
"...Zellweger is a dream -- funny, touching and vital in a role that lets her talents blossom....As ever, Freeman delivers miracles; he's as good as it gets..." (Rolling Stone, p.66, 28/09/2000)
"...Allows [Renee Zellweger] to pull out the emotional stops in a way that audiences can't help but find irresistible....Observing Zellweger as she dispenses her brand of movie magic definitely is good for what ails you." (USA Today, p.8E, 08/09/2000)
