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Nurse Betty | Year: 1999 Classification: Comedy Directed: - Neil Labute Actors/Actresses: - Aaron Eckhart - Morgan Freeman - Crispin Glover - Allison Janney - Greg Kinnear - Chris Rock - Renee Zellweger - Renée Zellweger Truly Original Nurse Betty was highly overlooked when it made its theatrical run. The critics were mostly in high praise of it, but the average movie going audience opted to go see something else. And why was this? Because people do not have any idea what is good and what is bad. This film was a terrific look at the lengths someone could go to seek out their idealized life. Renee Zellweger does a fantastic job as Betty, a waitress whose husband treats her terrible so she loses herself into the soap opera world. She is completely in love with Greg Kinear, who also does a great job as the phony doctor and the actor who is a true jerk. Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock get thrown into the mix as 2 assasins that kill Betty's husband, causing Betty to flee. Freeman and Rock follow her to Hollywood where she can live out her fantasies and become some one new. This film is something different from what we are all used to seeing. It is thoughtful and incredibly entertaining. The comparisons to Fargo are entirely wrong. This film is nothing like Fargo. This film has a much different tone and a much different atmosphere. Overall a great film. Cute, edgy and very funny This is an adorable, if somewhat edgy, comedy from a clever and witty script by John C. Richards, crisply directed by the very talented Neil LaBute, proving that he can handle comedy just as adroitly as he can the art house movie. Renée Zellweger stars as Betty Sizemore, a sort of Doris Day of the 21st century, a waitress from Kansas whose fantasy life centers around Dr. David Ravell (Greg Kinnear), star of a TV soap opera called, "A Reason to Live," to such a fanatical degree that she has memorized lines from the show after watching the tapes over and over again. (This will come in handy later on.) Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock play a father-son team of cocaine-dealing hit men who ignite the premise of the movie by murdering Betty's slimy used car salesman husband, played by Aaron Eckhart, who starred in In the Company of Men (1997), also directed by Neil LaBute. Chris Rock is a comedic psychopath, and Freeman a fatherly murderer whose favorite dictum is "three in the head, you know they're dead." One of the amazing and ht script and strong direction from Tom Gries that is equally adept at the mystery (more a 'what the heck's going on?' than 'who's behind it all?') as action (most notably a good rooftop punch-up and a spectacular wreck) it's never a dull ride. Bronson, still making an effort in those days, comes over well, while the strong supporting cast (including John Ford and Sam Peckinpah regular Ben Johnson, as well as Richard Crenna, Charles Durning and Ed Lauter) add a pleasing layer of professionalism and credibility. Even Jill Ireland, never the most interesting of leading ladies, acquits herself well here. Everyone here has done better work (check out Gries' extraordinarily affecting Will Penny or Ballard's work on The Wild Bunch), and it's not a life-changing experience, but that illiness. "Agua Mala," in which a hurricane lets a sea monster loose in an apartment building, could have been a genuinely creepy episode, except for the fact that the building's tenants are all trite stereotypes. While there were problems, the good outweighed the bad in this season. The mythology episodes continued to be superb, especially "Two Fathers"/"One Son," a two-parter which essentially brings cl own uncut, widescreen versions on DVD Buy Nurse Betty at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Nurse Betty Search with the Priority Search Engine on Nurse Betty This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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