Nurse Betty (2000) is an American black comedy feature 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 fan of daytime soap opera. Betty loses her grip on reality when she witnesses her no-good husband being scalped by assassins (Freeman and Rock), and starts obsessively pursuing her favourite soap ...
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Nurse Betty (2000) is an American black comedy feature 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 fan of daytime soap opera. Betty loses her grip on reality when she witnesses her no-good husband being scalped by assassins (Freeman and Rock), and starts obsessively pursuing her favourite soap actor George McCord (Greg Kinnear).
For her performance, Zellweger won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
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, that he is having an affair with...
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