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Nurse Betty

Name: Nurse Betty
Released: 2000-08-30T00:00:00.000000Z
Rating: 6.1

She's chasing a dream... they're chasing her.

2000 • 108 min • ★ 6.1 (433) • Released

Comedy Crime Drama Thriller

What happens when a person decides that life is merely a state of mind? If you're Betty, a small-town waitress and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kansas, you refuse to believe that you can't be with the love of your life just because he doesn't really exist. After all, life is no excuse for not living. Traumatized by a savage event, Betty enters into a fugue state that allows -- even encourages -- her to keep functioning... in a kind of alternate reality.

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Original title: Nurse Betty
Language: EN
Country: US
Budget: $24,000,000
Revenue: $29,364,989

Reviews & Ratings 1

Wuchak

Dec 6, 2023 · via TMDB

★ 6.0

**_Oddball dramedy about two people in love with their unreal fantasies_** A small town waitress in Kansas (Renée Zellweger) is married to a jerk car salesman, but enjoys a soap opera in which she fantasies about the hero-doctor on the show (Greg Kinnear). Meanwhile a criminal duo (Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock) chases the woman to Los Angeles whereupon the leader seems to develop a thing for her. "Nurse Betty" (2000) is part dramedy, part road movie, part crime drama, part romcom and part black comedy. While it's rarely laugh-out loud, it's pretty consistently amusing. What throws it off is that it's such an eccentric mixture viewers don't know how to take it, especially with a fairly radical scalping sequence (and I don't mean scalping tickets). It helps, though, when you grasp that the movie's about Betty and Charlie and their romantic idealism of people they've never met. At the end of the day this is an offbeat Tarantino-esque flick that's half-good and half-meh. The "meh" reaction is mostly due to its curiosities. Thankfully, it has depth and plays better on repeat viewings. The movie runs about one hour, 50 minutes, and was shot in Los Angeles; Durango, Colorado; Grand Canyon, Arizona; and Rome, Italy (closing scene). GRADE: B-/C+

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Cast 34

Morgan Freeman

Charlie

Renée Zellweger

Betty

Chris Rock

Wesley

Greg Kinnear

Dr. David Ravell

Aaron Eckhart

Del

Tia Texada

Rosa

Crispin Glover

Roy

Pruitt Taylor Vince

Ballard

Allison Janney

Lyla

Kathleen Wilhoite

Sue Ann

Elizabeth Mitchell

Chloe

Susan Barnes

Darlene

Harriet Sansom Harris

Ellen

Sung-Hi Lee

Jasmine

Laird Macintosh

Dr. Lonnie Walsh

Jenny Gago

Mercedes

Sheila Kelley

Joyce

Matthew Cowles

Merle

Wayne Tippit

Doctor

George D. Wallace

Grandfather

Lesley Woods

Grandmother

Cynthia Martells

Chief Nurse

Alfonso Freeman

ER Doctor

Kevin Rahm

Friend #1

Steven Culp

Friend #2

Deborah May

Gloria Walsh

Max Murphy

Studio Guard

T.J. Kennedy

Cook

Steve Franken

Administrator

Dona Hardy

Woman Patient

Elaine Corral Kendall

Anchor

Greg Bronson

Diner Patron (uncredited)

Hillary Straney

Woman in Hotel (uncredited)

Jenny Wade

Diner Waitress (uncredited)

Crew 18

Jean-Yves Escoffier

Director of Photography

David A. Armstrong

First Assistant Camera

Charlie Brewer

Stunt Coordinator

Jack Gill

Stunts

Kevin Scott

Stunts

Scott Workman

Stunts

Tim Gilbert

Stunts

Neil LaBute

Director

Steven Weisberg

Editor

Michael Bauman

Gaffer

Barbara Harris

ADR Voice Casting

Heidi Levitt

Casting

Monika Mikkelsen

Casting

Chris Sievernich

Executive Producer

Steve Golin

Producer

Tim Clawson

Unit Production Manager

Frankie Pine

Music Supervisor

Rolfe Kent

Original Music Composer

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US Release Dates 1

Sep 8, 2000

R Theatrical