Nurse Betty is a 2000 comedy film directed by Neil LaBute and starring Renée Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock and Greg Kinnear. It tells the tale of Betty (Zellweger), a sweet and innocent Kansas waitress who is a fanatic for one soap opera. Betty breaks with her reality for the soap opera's when she sees her husband murdered by hitmen. Image File history File links Nurse_Betty_DVD_cover. ... Neil LaBute (born March 19, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, and playwright. ... Steve Golin is founder and CEO of Anonymous Content LLP, a multimedia development, production and talent management company based in Culver City, California. ... Renée Kathleen Zellweger (born April 25, 1969) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress. ... For the Dawsons Creek director, see Morgan J. Freeman. ... Christopher Julius Rock III[1] (born February 7, 1965)[2] is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and director. ... Greg Kinnear (born June 17, 1963) is an Academy Award nominated American actor and television personality, who rocketed to stardom as the first host of E!s Talk Soup. ... ... Rolfe Kent (born 1963 in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England) is a film score composer. ... Focus Features (formerly known as USA Films and, in the beginning, Gramercy Pictures) is the speciality films division of Universal Pictures, a division of NBC Universal, the U.S.-based film, television and recreation entity of General Electric. ... is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2000. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2000. ... The word comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humor with an intent to provoke laughter in general). ... “Moving picture” redirects here. ... Neil LaBute (born March 19, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, and playwright. ... Renée Kathleen Zellweger (born April 25, 1969) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress. ... For the Dawsons Creek director, see Morgan J. Freeman. ... Christopher Julius Rock III[1] (born February 7, 1965)[2] is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and director. ... Greg Kinnear (born June 17, 1963) is an Academy Award nominated American actor and television personality, who rocketed to stardom as the first host of E!s Talk Soup. ... Official language(s) English[2] Capital Topeka Largest city Wichita Area  Ranked 15th  - Total 82,277 sq mi (213,096 km²)  - Width 211 miles (340 km)  - Length 417 miles (645 km)  - % water 0. ... For Philippine soap opera, see Teleserye. ...

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Plot

Betty is a waitress in a diner, who pours coffee behind her back while her eyes are glued to her favorite soap opera A Reason to Love. When she can tear herself away from the screen, she is the kindest, most thoughtful person one could meet, polite and considerate to everyone in her small town. She has no idea that her husband is selling drugs at his car dealership or having an affair with his secretary on his office couch.

When she calls to leave a message about borrowing a Buick LeSabre for her birthday, her husband gets off his secretary and on the phone to ask Betty to take a different car (the LeSabre has drugs hidden in the trunk). The Buick LeSabre was a full-size car made by the Buick division of General Motors from 1959-2005. ...

The two hitmen Betty had unknowingly served at the diner show up at the house with Betty's husband, while she is watching a taped episode of her soap. A grisly scene of torture and death ensues, and the hitmen learn that the drugs are in a car -- but not which one. Betty witnesses the murder and experiences a fugue state, escaping the grisly reality of murder into the comforting fantasy of the soap opera. In her mind, she assumes the identity of one of the characters in the daytime drama, a nurse. In the field of psychology, a fugue state is usually defined by the term dissociative fugue. ...

That evening, we see the sheriff, a reporter and cops examining the crime scene while Betty calmly packs a suitcase. ("Where's she going?") She is oblivious to the murder, even with the investigation going on right in her house. At the station, a psychiatrist examines her.

Betty spends the night at her friend's house, sleeping in a child's bedroom with the innocence of a little girl. In the middle of the night, she suddenly gets in her car and drives off. Her next stop is a bar in Arizona where she tells the lady bartender that she's engaged to a famous surgeon (the lead character from A Reason to Love—not the actor who portrays him, but the character himself). Official language(s) English Spoken language(s) English 74. ...

Meanwhile, the two hitmen are trying to find her, as they have finally realized that she must have the car with the drugs. They track her to Los Angeles, where she tries to get a job as a nurse while looking for her long-lost "ex-fiance". She is turned down, due to lack of a resume or references, but she blunders into a shootout and saves a patient's life (via skills she has learned from watching years of the soap opera) -- so she is hired anyway ("You will work in the pharmacy, and you're not to touch patients.") Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: , State California County Los Angeles County Settled 1781 Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government  - Type Mayor-Council  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa  - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo  - Governing body City Council Area  - City  498. ...

But Betty's gentle touch is just what patients need, and their families appreciate her, and she is invited to stay with a Spanish legal secretary who has had a series of painful love affairs who offers to help Betty find her surgeon friend ("One of us should find happiness, at least.")

But her friend learns (from her lawyer boss) that "David" is a soap opera character, and she goes to the pharmacy window to confront her. Betty just thinks her friend is jealous and is impervious to the revelation.

The lawyer has an idea and supplies tickets to a charity function where George (Kinnear), the actor portraying David, will be making an appearance. Betty meets him there ("Hi." "Do I know you?" "We were engaged." "Huh?")

He is inclined to dismiss her as an over-imaginative fan, but something about her compels him to walk back and talk to her some more. On one level, he thinks she is an actress determined to get a part in the soap opera, so he decides to play along. After three hours of her "staying in character," he takes her home.

On another level, he is falling in love with her, but he and his producer decide to bring her onto the show as a new character: Nurse Betty. Only when she gets to the set, she falls out of her fantasy world back into real life. Apparently seeing the inner workings of a television show snaps her back into reality. After two failed takes, when instead of doing some improvisation, she realizes that she is on a set and that the people she thought were real are just actors portraying characters, George confronts her for being a "crazy person" and she walks out.

Now sane, Betty begins to tell Rose what happened, when the two hitmen come into the house. Charlie falls in love with Betty. Wesley is shot and killed by Betty's local town cop, and is revealed to be Charlie's son. Charlie, rather than being arrested, decides not to kill Betty, and commits suicide in the bathroom. Betty is offered a job on the show by George, and she accepts. She appears in 63 episodes and then takes a holiday in Rome. She is planning on pursuing a nursing degree.

Cast

• Renée Zellweger as Betty Sizemore
• Morgan Freeman as Charlie
• Chris Rock as Wesley
• Greg Kinnear as Dr. David Ravell/George McCord
• Sung Hi Lee as Jasmine
• Crispin Glover as Roy Ostery
• Pruitt Taylor Vance as Sheriff Eldon Ballard
• Tia Texada as Rosa Hernandez
• Susan Barnes as Darlene

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Awards

• American Comedy Awards:
  • Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture (Renée Zellweger)
• Black Reel Awards:
  • Best Actor (Morgan Freeman)
  • Best Supporting Actor (Chris Rock)
• British Independent Film Awards:
  • Best Foreign Film - English Language
• Cannes Film Festival:
  • Best Screenplay (James Flamberg and John C. Richards)
  • Golden Palm (Neil LaBute)
• Edgar Allan Poe Awards:
  • Best Motion Picture
• Golden Globe Awards:
  • Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (Renée Zellweger)
• Image Awards:
  • Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture (Morgan Freeman)
• London Film Critics:
  • Actress of the Year (Renée Zellweger)
• Satellite Awards:
  • Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (Renée Zellweger)
  • Best Picture - Musical or Comedy
  • Best Supporting Actor - Musical or Comedy Morgan Freeman

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External links

• Nurse Betty at the Internet Movie Database
• Nurse Betty at Rotten Tomatoes
• Nurse Betty at Box Office Mojo
• Nurse Betty review at Cult Fiction