Nurse Betty (2000)
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 130
Fresh: 109 | Rotten: 21
Nurse Betty's script is delightfully imaginative, while both the direction and ensemble performances are excellent.
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 11
Nurse Betty's script is delightfully imaginative, while both the direction and ensemble performances are excellent.
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After two acclaimed independent films in which he took a troubling look at male/female relations, director Neil LaBute moves on to less controversial ground in this dark comedy. 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). One of Betty's few pleasures in life is the soap opera A Reason to Love. Her favorite character is handsome Dr. David Ravell, played by George McCord (Greg Kinnear).
Cast
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Renée Zellweger
Betty Sizemore -
Morgan Freeman
Charlie -
Chris Rock
Wesley -
Harriet Sansom Harris
Ellen -
Allison Janney
Lyla -
Aaron Eckhart
Del, Del Sizemore -
Greg Kinnear
Dr. David Ravell/George... -
Crispin Glover
Roy -
Tia Texada
Rosa -
Pruitt Taylor Vince
Ballard -
Kathleen Wilhoite
Sue Ann -
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Lesley Woods
Grandmother Blaine -
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Alfonso Freeman
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The actors hold the movie together, particularly Ms. Zellweger and Mr. Freeman, whose characters achieve a remarkable intimacy in a most unlikely situation.
Top CriticIn his third, most accomplished film, LaBute puts aside the inquiry of misogyny that dominated his previous work and immerses himself in a lighter romantic fable about the collision of fantasy and reality, with a terrific performance from Renee Zelwegger
Almost every emotion and action on view is presented as false, idiotic or superficial.
LaBute didn't write Nurse Betty, but his fierce comic touch is, luckily, all over this movie.
Whether or not Betty sustains her character, the movie fails to maintain its own. The scenario falls apart.
Nurse Betty is never going to be confused with Mary Poppins, but as of now, it's LaBute's crowd pleaser.
This comedy has a few violent scenes.
Good performances all around, especially from Zellweger and Kinnear. Lots of good laughs laced with nastiness.
Rene's got the undivided attention of the audience right beside her the whole time, and even solidly emotionally touched by her invisible world.
This is easily Ms. Zellweger's finest work.
After a summer of cookie-cutter comedies and blowsy action flicks, Neil LaBute's Nurse Betty is good for what ails you.
Despite cringing at many of Betty's deluded interactions with the residents of her final destination and the director's seeming lack of faith in the believability of many of the scenes, Nurse Betty still turns out to be entertaining.
If I had to use just one word to describe Nurse Betty, that word would undoubtedly be...Quirky. And I mean that in a really, really good way.
LaBute is working from a script that's blessedly free of his mechanized story construction and showboating, faux-Mamet dialogue. And guess what? He turns out to be a fine director.
In the end [it] tells us we shouldn't depend on each other... we should be glad that 'we have ourselves.' What a lonely and sad conclusion.
Nurse Betty suffers, however, from a script that relies on jaded hit men for comic impact. We've seen it done too many times since...Pulp Fiction.
Las actuaciones son buenas, al nivel del gran elenco que se reúne, pero el guión es el que se lleva los aplausos.
One of the finest-written surprises of the year.
A strong contender for one of the best films of the year.
This bizarrely funny satire/allegory from the maker of heavier fare such as In the Company of Men works on a surprising number of levels, not the least of which is perhaps the first human Renee Zellweger performance I have ever seen.
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