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Nurse Betty
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| Directed by | Neil LaBute |
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| Cinematography | Jean-Yves Escoffier |
| Edited by | Joel Plotch Steven Weisberg |
| Music by | Rolfe Kent |
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| Distributed by | USA Films (United States) Summit Entertainment (International)[1] |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $25 million[2] |
| Box office | $29.4 million[3] |
Nurse Betty is a 2000 American black comedy film directed by Neil LaBute and starring Renée Zellweger as the title character, a small town, Kansas housewife-waitress who suffers a nervous breakdown after witnessing her husband's torture murder, and starts obsessively pursuing her favorite television soap opera character (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 premiered at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.[4] The film won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay. For her performance, Zellweger won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. The film was also a commercial success.[5]
- ^ "Nurse Betty (2000)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on May 17, 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
- ^ Daly, Steve (September 15, 2000). "'Nurse Betty': Daze of Her Lives". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 14, 2021.
- ^ "Nurse Betty (2000)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
- ^ Levy, Emanuel (May 12, 2000). "Nurse Betty". Variety. Retrieved July 7, 2020.
- ^ "Corrections". Variety. November 9, 2000. Archived from the original on October 4, 2020. Retrieved March 14, 2021.
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