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Nurse Betty movie 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.
Nurse Betty is a 2000 American black comedy film directed by Neil LaBute starring Renée Zellweger as a Kansas waitress who suffers a nervous breakdown after witnessing her husband’s murder, and starts obsessively pursuing her favorite soap actor (Greg Kinnear), while in a fugue state. Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock play the hitmen who killed her husband and subsequently pursue her to Los Angeles.
The film opened at #2 at the North American box office making $7.1 million USD in its opening weekend, behind The Watcher, which opened at the top spot.. For her performance, Zellweger won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
Nurse Betty (2000)
Directed by: Neil LaBute
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Renée Zellweger, Chris Rock, Tia Texada, Greg Kinnear, Aaron Eckhart, Crispin Glover, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Allison Janney, Kathleen Wilhoite
Screenplay by: John C. Richards, James Flamberg
Production Design by: Charles William Breen
Cinematography by: Jean-Yves Escoffier
Film Editing by: Joel Plotch, Steven Weisberg
Costume Design by: Lynette Meyer
Set Decoration by: Jeffrey Kushon
Art Direction by: Gary Diamond
Music by: Rolfe Kent
MPAA Rating: R for strong violence, pervasive language and a scene of sexuality.
Distributed by: USA Films
Release Date: September 8, 2000
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