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	Nurse Betty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nurse Betty is a 2000 comedy film directed by Neil LaBute and starring Renée Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock and Greg Kinnear.
		Betty witnesses the murder and experiences a fugue state, escaping the grisly reality of murder into the comforting fantasy of the soap opera.
		Betty spends the night at her friend's house, sleeping a child's bedroom with the innocence of a little girl.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nurse_Betty (910 words)

	Nurse Betty: Cinephiles Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Nurse Betty, directed by Neil LaBute (Your Friends and Neighbors, In the Company of Men) and written by John C. Richards, focuses on an unhappily married coffee shop waitress in Kansas, whose ungratifying life blends with her fascination for soap operas as a form of escapism.
		Nurse Betty creates comedy and suspense by contrasting its main character's extreme innocence and optimism with the evident hypocrisy and violence that surround her.
		Betty's incapacity to recognize George as an actor leads to funny misunderstandings which stress the magnitude of her delusional state.
	www.cinephiles.net /Nurse_Betty/Film-Synopsis.html (472 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Nurse Betty at Epinions.com
		Betty creates her own little world in which she has left her creep of a husband to be with the man she was once engaged to.
		Betty is followed on her cross country trip by the local sheriff, a reporter who is also her friend, Charlie and Wesley.
		Betty is many things, trusting and naive to name a few, but she is not stupid.
	www.epinions.com /content_33332760196 (1815 words)

	Nurse Betty
		Betty returns home and holes herself up in the den to watch her soap on video, ignoring Del when he returns to do business with the two men Betty served earlier, Charlie and Wesley (Chris Rock, "Lethal Weapon IV").
		Betty journeys from Kansas to LA and secures a job as a nurse and a place to stay with the thankful Rosa (Tia Texada, "Paulie") after acting quickly during a shootout/kidnapping in front of the hospital which had just turned her away.
		Betty's sweetness personified, but never cloying, and her ability to waft from one dream to the next is utterly convincing.
	www.reelingreviews.com /nursebetty.htm (1695 words)

	Movie Info for Nurse Betty on MSN Movies
		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).
		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.
	entertainment.msn.com /Movies/Movie.aspx?m=91927 (292 words)

	TheMovieBoy Review: Nurse Betty (2000)
		For LaBute's third effort, "Nurse Betty," he has adapted the highly original screenplay by John C. Richards and James Flamberg into a motion picture that is as sweet as could possibly be, with the title character being one of the most lovable heroines in many a moon.
		As Betty Sizemore, the lovely Renee Zellweger has found a wonderfully layered role that she was undoubtedly born to play.
		"Nurse Betty" is a masterful human comedy and a sincere drama, as imaginative as it is unpredictable.
	themovieboy.com /reviews/n/00_nursebetty.htm (743 words)

	Nurse Betty
		Betty Sizemore (Renee Zellweger, The Bachelor, Me, Myself, and Irene) is the title character, a young, innocent waitress in a hopeless marriage.
		Betty sets off to Los Angeles in search of who she believes is her ex-fiancee with Charlie and Wesley in pursuit.
		Nurse Betty is by John C. Richards, and James Flamberg.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/nurse_betty.html (584 words)

	Nurse Betty
		In "Nurse Betty," Renee Zellweger crosses that line, and as a result, she delivers an incredibly appealing and, dare I say it, Oscar-worthy performance.
		Betty (Renee Zellweger) is a waitress from Fair Oaks, Kan., whose only joy in life comes from watching actor George McCord (Greg Kinnear) work his magic as Dr. David Rovell on her favorite daytime soap opera.
		The trauma throws Betty into a state of shock, and in her delusional state, she thinks she's one of the characters from her soap opera.
	www.moviemantz.com /movie_reviews/900/nurse_betty.html (602 words)

	Amazon.com: Nurse Betty: DVD: Morgan Freeman,Renée Zellweger,Chris Rock,Greg Kinnear,Aaron Eckhart,Tia Texada,Crispin ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Betty was damaged emotionally by the sight of her real-life, abusive husband after he was savagely murdered.
		Betty is a downtrodden but ever-optimistic waitress whose life shuttles between the humdrum (her job) and the abusive (her husband).
		Nurse Betty, brings to the screen the story of a young woman from Kansas who after witnessing her husband's gruesome death goes into shock and believes she is living in the world of her favorite soap opera with all that that entails.
	www.amazon.com /Nurse-Betty-Morgan-Freeman/dp/B0000584ZH (2235 words)

	Nurse Betty - Review - Movie Tome (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Betty is the classic wife of a son of a bitch who has given up her own dream of becoming a nurse to wait tables and take care of her less than adoring husband.
		Betty pours her heart out to who she thinks is her ex-fiancée and the onlookers perceive her performance as a genius actress trying to get a part on the show.
		Betty begins to realize the actual danger of the situation and nabs the gun from her would be assailant.
	www.movietome.com.cob-web.org:8888 /movietome/servlet/Review/reviewid-69/Nurse_Betty (1374 words)

	NURSE BETTY
		Betty's nonchalance about the whole situation makes her a suspect, mainly because the town sheriff (Vance) has nothing else to go on.
		Betty has never encountered violence like that in her life and the shock pushes her over the edge, sending her into a fantasy world with her favorite soap actor Dr. David Revell (Kinnear) at the center of it.
		In the end, NURSE BETTY is a film about finding your special place in the world, whether it be as a nurse or a soap star, to live life instead of a fantasy.
	crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsN/f_nurse_betty.html (1065 words)

	Nurse Betty film review
		Betty spends much of her time immersed in the soap opera "A Reason to Love" and fantasizing about one of its main characters, heart surgeon David Ravell, played by actor George McCord (Greg Kinnear).
		The vision of nursing presented in the soap opera scenes is predictably regressive and insulting, with OR nurses pausing to adjust their makeup while cooing over the pressures placed on the heroic surgeon.
		Betty does, through a bizarre series of events, help save a real patient's life by decompressing a tension pneumothorax--a technique she has evidently seen on the soap--and her encounter with a real hospital's "Chief Nurse" does at least make clear that nursing job applicants must supply resumes and references.
	www.nursingadvocacy.org /media/films/nurse_betty.html (596 words)

	Nurse Betty
		Betty snaps, suddenly imagining herself to be Nurse Betty, the former fiancee of Dr. David Ravell, her soap opera's smarmy leading man. No longer able to distinguish the world of her favorite show from her own life, she takes off for Los Angeles determined to win Ravell back.
		Ironically, becoming Nurse Betty restores her: the soaps may be florid cartoons, but they offer her a chance at something more emotionally real than anything she's felt in years.
		Nurse Betty is something quite original: a comic meditation on our involvement with popular culture, one that honors the power of even the most banal and trivial art.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/NurseBetty.htm (839 words)

	Nurse Betty
		Betty's birthday is celebrated by her friends at work, and her next door neighbor.
		Learning that Betty is staying in a motel, Rosa invites her to room with her for a short while, after Rosa's lawyer friend, Jasmine (Sung Hi Lee), makes a suggestion of doing "the right thing".
		Nurse Betty is one of the best films of the year, and unlike a good book that takes days to read, this only takes two hours.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /2000/id555.htm (759 words)

	Nurse Betty
		Betty's life is drastically altered when she witnesses her lowlife husband Del (Aaron Eckhart) being murdered by two bickering hitmen (Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock) over a drug deal gone wrong.
		Shocked into a "fugue state" by the trauma, Betty goes AWOL and heads off across America to LA, convinced that she is in fact a nurse at the fictional hospital from A Reason to Love, and that Dr Ravel is her real-life former fiancé.
		It underscores the scene in which Betty fulfils her wish and kisses the man whom she (mistakenly) believes is her fiancé, and at the exact moment their lips touch, the music swells into a huge, lush statement of the main theme.
	www.moviemusicuk.us /nbettycd.htm (862 words)

	Nurse Betty : film review
		Betty lives for the show, and judging from her crappy marriage to a sleazy, cheating auto dealer, it is easy to see why: it serves as a daily escape into a fantasy world she would love to live in.
		When she witnesses the brutal slaying of her husband by two hit men,Charlie (Freeman) and Wesley (Rock), Betty is traumatized to the point that she actually believes she is Nurse Betty, the ex-fiancée of Dr. David Ravell, a character on A Reason To Love.
		Nurse Betty is a film that consists of two halves: a Wizard Of Oz —esque fantasy comedy that strains for a whimsical aura and the other half a violent Quentin Tarantino crime story that even that missing-in-action director would shudder at.
	www.musicomh.com /films/nurse.htm (834 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "Nurse Betty"
		Betty Sizemore (Renée Zellweger) is a waitress in a Kansas diner who dreams of becoming a nurse, dreams inspired by her favorite soap, "A Reason to Love," and particularly its doctor-hero, played by actor George McCord (Greg Kinnear).
		Hiding in the den with tapes of her beloved soap, Betty witnesses the whole bloody scene and takes off for California, suddenly convinced that she's a nurse, the show is reality and that its star is her long-lost fiancée.
		To the soap-opera star George McCord, Betty, who speaks to him as if he were the character he plays, seems like an actress angling for a part on the show, one so adept at improvisation that she never breaks character.
	archive.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2000/09/08/nurse_betty/index.html (1529 words)

	Nurse Betty (2000): Reviews
		All in all, Nurse Betty is a wonderful movie, unpredictably alive to the fact that the American citizenry is a lot stranger than we like to admit.
		Betty moves into Coen Brothers territory, a land so unreal that horrific behavior wrings laughter from a disbelieving audience.
		Nurse Betty is this year's "Being John Malkovich"-an utter original with a little something to say and a way of saying it that manages to be at once delightful and bilious.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/nursebetty (825 words)

	"Nurse Betty" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		Betty is pursued across the country by her husband's killers, played by Chris Rock (whose use of profanity is completely over the top), and Morgan Freeman (who begins to fantasize what a life with Nurse Betty would be like and how he might redeem himself to be as good a person as she is).
		Nurse Betty, while often receiving rave reviews and promising an interesting plot, is unfortunately littered with obscenities, including many uses of the "f" word, and it has one very sexually explicit scene.
		"Nurse Betty" is a dark comedy about a young woman named Betty Sizemore (Renee Zellwegger) who is a waitress at a local diner in Kansas but never misses her favorite soap opera "A Reason to Love" with her favorite soap star David Luvell (Greg Kinnear) whom she has a crush on.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2000/nursebetty.html (1261 words)

	AudioRevolution.com Review of 'Nurse Betty'
		Things become complicated in L.A. as Betty, still convinced "A Reason to Love" is real life, does encounter George, who assumes that her constant referring to him as "David Ravell" is an elaborate, actor's scheme for getting onto the series.
		The threat Betty unknowingly faces is very real; even though Charlie becomes fascinated by her, the possibility of his murdering her when at last they meet remains real.
		He's caught up in his illusion that Betty is just that wonderful, and carries on past the point of obvious return: he hopes to discover that people aren't as lousy as he always thought they were.
	www.avrev.com /movies/nursebetty/index.html (1272 words)

	Nurse Betty Movie Review by Anthony Leong from MediaCircus.net
		"Nurse Betty" is a fantastic, whimsical, absurd, funny, and truly heartwarming film about two hopeless romantics in pursuit of their dreams...
		And though "Nurse Betty" is uncharacteristically optimistic in its execution, director LaBute infuses this fairy-tale with just the right amount of cynicism to ensure that the humor is fl and the 'happy ending' is not only surprising, but well-earned.
		Unfortunately, Betty is married to scumbag used car salesman Del (Aaron Eckhart of "Erin Brockovich"), who not only treats her like dirt, but brazenly carries on an affair under her nose.
	www.mediacircus.net /nursebetty.html (741 words)

	Nurse Betty
		Nurse Betty offers many of the pleasures of the soap opera to viewers for whom soap operas are not an option.
		It is the night of Betty’s birthday, and we find her tucked in front of the television watching an episode of her favorite show.
		Betty wins a part on her beloved soap, shows up in 63 episodes, and then applies her earnings toward nursing school.
	www.portifex.com /LArts/nurse_betty.htm (742 words)

	Nurse Betty (2000)
		In perhaps the quirkiest and most offbeat story since Being John Malkovich, Nurse Betty is a Kansas waitress played to perfection by Renée Zellweger, and she also happens to adore a corny soap opera called A Reason To Love.
		Betty may turn into a complete nutcase before our eyes, but because of her independent spirit and her touching innocence we never reach that point where we feel embarrassed for her actions.
		The reason Nurse Betty succeeds is because Zellweger obviously understands her role and never once resorts to mocking the character.
	www.moovees.com /review/nurse-betty.html (642 words)

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		Betty thinks she is a former fiancee of the show's star character, Dr.
		Betty really has flipped out, and she really does start asking for Dr. Ravell as she applies for nursing jobs at L.A. hospitals.
		Every time you think Betty has painted herself into a corner, she cleverly talks her way out of it, in a way you are willing to buy into - at least for a moment.
	www.cincypost.com /living/2000/nurse090800.html (624 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Nurse Betty" review (2000) Neil LaBute, Renee Zellweger, Morgan Freeman
		The waitress, Betty Sizemore, is the kind of bona fide wide-eyed innocent most Hollywood actresses wouldn't be able to play without slipping into a hammy, ignorant hayseed routine and winking ironically at the audience.
		Once in L.A., Betty dumb-lucks into a pharmacy job at the hospital where she thinks Dr. Ravell works, and soon a spicy Latina (Tia Texada) she's befriended tries to shake her out of her fantasy by taking her to a charity do where soap star McCord is appearing -- out of character.
		While "Nurse Betty" isn't quite the sum of its such impeccable parts, Zellweger's incredibly earnest, enthusiastic performance ties it all together in a way no other actress could.
	www.splicedonline.com /00reviews/nursebetty.html (754 words)

	LIGHT VIEWS FILM REVIEW: NURSE BETTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		"Nurse Betty" is light and bubbly, and even when the film does sway into dangerous territory, it never betrays the story.
		Zellweger makes Betty so believable you want her to succeed, even if she is living in a fantasy world.
		Betty is his last hit, but only if he can bring himself to finish the job.
	www.lightviews.com /nursebetty.htm (907 words)

	Nurse Betty (2000): Morgan Freeman, Rénee Zellweger, Chris Rock, Greg Kinnear - PopMatters Film Review
		Yet the cast of Nurse Betty shares a deep affinity with his earlier dramatis personae as a gallery of contemporary narcissists, all so self-absorbed that they cannot see that the world does not, and will not, except by accident, conform to their view of it.
		Betty's self-absorption is a temporary psychological condition: for the other characters, even Charlie, it is real life.
		Betty may not go back to Kansas, but this once thoroughly modern director reveals a somewhat sinister nostalgia for a neater, whiter, happier Kansas of the mind.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/n/nurse-betty2.shtml (1240 words)

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