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Nurse Betty is a 2000 American black comedy film directed by Neil LaBute and starring Renée Zellweger as the title character, a small town, Kansas housewife-waitress who suffers a nervous breakdown after witnessing her husband's torture murder, and starts obsessively pursuing her favorite television soap opera character (Greg Kinnear), while ...
Sep 8, 2000 · Nurse Betty: Directed by Neil LaBute. With Morgan Freeman, Renée Zellweger, Chris Rock, Greg Kinnear. Comedy about a widow's post-traumatic obsession with a soap star.
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- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Neil LaBute
- 2000-09-08
Sep 8, 2000 · "Nurse Betty," written by John C. Richards and James Flamberg, is a comedy undercut with dark tones and flashes of violence. Heading inexorably toward a tidy happy ending, LaBute sidesteps cliches like a broken-field runner.
Comedy about a widow's post-traumatic obsession with a soap star. Kansas City waitress, Betty (Renée Zellweger), with dreams of becoming a nurse, becomes delusional after seeing her no-good car salesman husband murdered.
After her husband's death, a widowed waitress experiencing post-traumatic stress hits the road in search of her fantasy soul mate - soap star character Dr. Ravell. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
Sep 8, 2000 · 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. 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 ...