Release Date
September 8, 2000
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
Studio
Running Time
110 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated R for strong violence, pervasive language and a scene of sexuality
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,... Full synopsis »
MOVIE REVIEW
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. Full movie review »
