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, Rock) who killed her husband, Betty arrives in the City of Angels and eventually meets her dream doctor...

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.
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