Comedy about a widow's post-traumatic obsession with a soap star.
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Neil LaBute
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Morgan Freeman | ... | Charlie | |
| Renée Zellweger | ... | Betty | |
| Chris Rock | ... | Wesley | |
| Greg Kinnear | ... | George McCord (Dr. David Ravell) | |
| Aaron Eckhart | ... | Del | |
| Tia Texada | ... | Rosa | |
| Crispin Glover | ... | Roy Ostery | |
| Pruitt Taylor Vince | ... | Ballard | |
| Allison Janney | ... | Lyla | |
| Kathleen Wilhoite | ... | Sue Ann | |
| Elizabeth Mitchell | ... | Chloe | |
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Susan Barnes | ... | Darlene |
| Harriet Sansom Harris | ... | Ellen | |
| Sung Hi Lee | ... | Jasmine | |
| Laird Macintosh | ... | Dr. Lonnie Walsh | |
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Storyline
A Kansas City waitress with dreams of becoming a nurse becomes delusional after seeing her no-good car salesman husband murdered. Becoming delusional from shock, she becomes convinced that she is the former fiancée of her soap opera idol. What she also believes is that the soap opera is real and goes to LA to find the hospital where he works as a cardiologist. Meanwhile, her husband's murderers are searching for the drugs stolen by her husband and, as luck would have it, they are stored in the trunk of the car she drove off in. Freeman, an aging hit man planning his retirement after this job, also becomes delusional about the woman he is tracking. Written by John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords:
police officer | surgical theater | television camera | television commercial | television producer |Taglines:
This September Get Ready For Nurse Betty. See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for strong violence, pervasive language and a scene of sexuality | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Release Date:
8 September 2000 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Betty See more »Filming Locations:
Stahl House, Case House 22 - 1635 Woods Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Edit
Box Office
Budget:
$35,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$7,145,950, 10 September 2000Gross USA:
$25,170,054Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$29,364,989Company Credits
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Color (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
2.39 : 1
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Betty Sizemore: Los Angeles, California!
Betty Sizemore: And you called your friend and she's telling you not to go?
[Betty nods, regretfully]
Ellen: When I went to Europe, my friends told me I was crazy.
Betty Sizemore: Europe? *The* Europe? God, this is my first time out of Kansas!
Ellen: I should call you Dorothy.
[they both laugh]
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Written by Mark Adams, Dan Webster Mark Hicks, Raymond Turner, Thomas Locket and Steve Arrington
Performed by Slave
Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Group
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products
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Trivia
Paul Threlkeld, the grip on the soap opera set of the show-within-a-show, was the dolly grip for the movie. See more »Goofs
None of the computer monitors visible have power cables connected. See more »Quotes
Ellen: So, where are you headed, Betty?Betty Sizemore: Los Angeles, California!
Betty Sizemore: And you called your friend and she's telling you not to go?
[Betty nods, regretfully]
Ellen: When I went to Europe, my friends told me I was crazy.
Betty Sizemore: Europe? *The* Europe? God, this is my first time out of Kansas!
Ellen: I should call you Dorothy.
[they both laugh]
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Just a Touch of LoveWritten by Mark Adams, Dan Webster Mark Hicks, Raymond Turner, Thomas Locket and Steve Arrington
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Nurse Betty (2000)
This is a sleeper, a dark comedy with enough inventive twists to call to mind The Truman Show but with a greater sense of reality to hold it down. Renee Zellweger is flawless as the naive, sweet, but utterly detached young woman named Betty who is addicted to a soap opera called "A Reason to Love." This seems sweet enough, but her husband is a jerk (totally) and things start to spiral, and get dizzy, as reality even for the viewer starts to shift ground.
Not that you are ever confused about what is happening or who the good guys are. The good guys are not Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock, for sure, as this unlikely and comedic father and son duo get involved, incidentally at first, in Betty's strange inner and outer life. A chase of sorts ensues, the soap opera becomes reality, and then reality becomes soap opera. And it's really hilarious and inventive and fast paced.
Is it a total work of genius? Probably not. Maybe Charlie Kaufman would have added another twist in there (I'm not sure how), and certainly some of the side characters could have seemed less cardboard, or less awkward as actors. But Zellweger is unbelievable (really, your jaw might drop at how convincing she could play her mental blindness, and her awakening, of sorts). And Morgan Freeman is his usually convincing and engaging self.
The utterly disgusting violence of one 20 second scene might turn off some viewers near the beginning, but if you can keep watching, the movie gets better from there. Much better.