After a summer of brain-numbing junk, Nurse Betty seems like a reprieve.
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Nurse Betty (2000)
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Reviews Counted:118
Fresh:100
Rotten:18
Average Rating:7.2/10
Consensus: Nurse Betty's script is delightfully imaginative, while both the direction and ensemble performances are excellent.
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Television
US Box Office: $25,010,899
Synopsis: When small town waitress Betty Sizemore (Renée Zellweger) accidentally witnesses the grisly murder of her underhanded car-dealing husband (Aaron Eckhart), she copes with the trauma by retreating... [More]
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock, Greg Kinnear
Director: Neil LaBute
Reviews for Nurse Betty
Nurse Betty is a corker.
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Its originality and sheer wacked-out likability compensate for its weaknesses in pacing.
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If Nurse Betty is any indication, these slightly more commercial movies won't be mere digressions or artistic sellouts; they'll be worth the wait, even if they aren't as distinctive or as sure-footed as his more challenging personal projects.
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May very well be this years American Beauty.
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This comedy enables us to imagine the surprising ways in which a person can be transformed and set on a new path.
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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.
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This black comedy from Neil LaBute doesn't look finished, just abandoned -- a complicated tangle of clashing ideas and styles beyond the director's capacity to reconcile.
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Neil LaBute might have made the perfect capper for the end of the Clinton era -- a decade when the only bad lie was a badly told one.
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I left stunned by the movie's perfect combination of crackerjack acting, clever writing, sharp cross-cutting of scenes.
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The year's most enjoyable -- and most surprising -- fairy tale.
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Whether or not Betty sustains her character, the movie fails to maintain its own. The scenario falls apart.
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Nurse Betty's two hallmarks are originality and star quality, both of which combine to draw the viewer through the film's occasional rough spots.
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Its premise, I'll admit, is a lot to ask moviegoers to swallow. But if you can go along with its tall-tale spirit, you can't help but be amazed at how ingeniously the filmmakers work out the ramifications of Betty's delusion.
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Nurse Betty is never going to be confused with Mary Poppins, but as of now, it's LaBute's crowd pleaser.
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