Nurse Betty

Comic thriller about a Kansas City waitress who becomes delusional when she sees her abusive husband murdered. Suffering from shock, she sets off for LA in search of the fictional hospital from her favourite TV soap and the handsome doctor who stars in it, unaware that her husband’s very real killers are on her trail, and that the boot of her car is packed with the drugs her husband hoped to sell to his killers., Neil LaBute’s comedy/drama stars Renee Zellweger as a waitress who sees her slimeball husband killed in a drugs deal. Traumatised, she decides she’s a star in her favourite medical soap and also the real-life fiancée of its star (Greg Kinnear). But her husband’s killers (Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock) are after the drugs hidden in her car while Zellweger, oblivious to all danger, pursues her date with destiny., Renee Zellweger won a Golden Globe for her hilarious performance in this dark comedy. She plays a soap-opera-obsessed waitress who loses her grip on reality after witnessing a murder. Then, she goes in search of her true love: a fictional TV doctor. Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock, Greg Kinnear. Directed by Neil LaBute (“Your Friends and Neighbors”), Neil LaBute’s comedy/drama stars Renee Zellweger as Betty Sizemore, a waitress who sees her slimeball husband killed in a drugs deal. Traumatised, she decides she’s a star in her favourite medical soap and also the real-life fiancée of its star. But her husband’s killers are after the drugs hidden in her car while Zellweger, oblivious to all danger, pursues her date with destiny…, Dark, offbeat comedy from director Neil LaBute about a woman clinging on to her infatuation for a television character when her shady husband is killed., Betty (Renee Zellweger) is a diner waitress married to Del (Aaron Eckhart), an abusive low-lifer. When Del meets his fate, Betty decides to take her life into her own hands and tracks down the producer of her favorite soap opera, After two acclaimed independent films in which he took a troubling look at male/female relations, director Neil LaBute moves on to less controversial ground in this dark comedy. Betty Sizemore (Renee Zellweger) is a woman from Kansas City who waits tables at a diner and is married to an insensitive thug named Del (Aaron Eckhart). One of Betty’s few pleasures in life is the soap opera A Reason to Love. Her favorite character is handsome Dr. David Ravell, played by George McCord (Greg Kinnear). One night, Del gets involved in a drug deal with a pair of gangsters, Charlie (Morgan Freeman) and his sidekick Wesley (Chris Rock). Del’s thoughtless racial slurs lead to an arguement, and the short-tempered Wesley attacks him; Charlie is forced to kill Del, as Betty watches. Dazed and in shock, Betty hops into her car, deciding that the time is right for a date with destiny. Betty tracks down George McCord, and soon the soap’s producer Lyla (Allison Janney) is considering Betty for a part on A Reason to Love, not realizing that Betty doesn’t want to play Dr. Ravell’s nurse and fiance, she wants to be her. Betty, meanwhile, has no idea that the drugs that Del was trying to sell are still in her car, and that Charlie and Wesley are hot on her trail, determined to get the dope and silence her once and for all. Nurse Betty also features Kathleen Wilhoite, Crispin Glover, and Pruitt Taylor Vince. The film was shown in competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the prize for Best Screenplay., Neil LaBute’s comedy-drama stars Renée Zellweger as Betty Sizemore, a waitress who sees her slimeball husband killed in a drugs deal. Traumatised, she decides she’s a star in her favourite medical soap and also the real-life fiancée of its star. But her husband’s killers are after the drugs hidden in her car while Betty, oblivious to all danger, pursues her date with destiny…, Betty Sizemore, a waitress from Fair Oaks, Kansas hits the road in a borrowed 1997 Buick LeSabre to be reunited with the love of her life — Dr. Ravell. The only problem is that Dr. Ravell is a primary character on the soap opera A Reason to Live and Betty, after witnessing the traumatic murder of her husband in a drug-deal gone bad, has convinced herself that she is Nurse Betty, the woman who jilted Ravell at the alter six years ago.