Nurse Betty DVD > Reviews

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, ... Read review

Advantages: Amusing and diverting
Disadvantages: But quite strange really, and some parts are pretty gory

I took this film out the other night, totally at random – I’d never heard of it before, but any film with Morgan Freeman in it will always be appealing! That said, I did enjoy this, but it was not at all what you might expect, being totally off the wall 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 ... Read review

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 ... Read review

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 ... Read review

Advantages: funny
Disadvantages: crude

...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 into ... Read review