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Nurse Betty (2000)

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Release Date: September 8, 2000
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Suspense
Running Time: 110 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated R for strong violence, pervasive language and a scene of sexuality.
Director: Neil LaBute
Writer: James Flamberg, John C. Richards
Cast: Kathleen Wilhoite, Tia Texada, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Sheila Kelley, Sung Hi Lee, Allison Janney, Crispin Glover, Aaron Eckhart, Chris Rock, Greg Kinnear, Morgan Freeman, Renee Zellweger

Betty (Zellweger) is a waitress at the local diner in a small Kansas town. She dreams every day of her true love: he (Kinnear) appears as a doctor on her favorite soap opera five days a week. When her husband is killed in a drug deal gone wrong, Betty flees reality and drives cross-country to Los Angeles in the hopes of meeting her soap opera fantasy face to face. Followed by the drug dealers (Freeman, Read more

Movie Review

Grade: C+ A waitress sees her crumby husband scalped by two hit men and has a psychotic episode, where she sets out for LA thinking that she once once engaged to a doctor who in reality is an actor on a hospital soap opera, all the while being pursued by the hit men, with one of those men being in love with her. This is the quirky plot for the neurotic Nurse Betty, a comedy that some people considered a masterpiece, a movie that I consider drab fluff. Read the full movie review

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