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Nurse Betty

Genre
Comedy
Running Time
110 Minutes
Released
8 September, 2000
Nurse Betty

Nurse Betty is a 2000 American black comedy film directed by Neil LaBute and starring Renée Zellweger as 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, 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. 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.

Director Neil LaBute
Produced by Steve Golin, Gail Mutrux
Writer(s) John C. Richards, James Flamberg
Starring Morgan Freeman, Renée Zellweger, Chris Rock, Greg Kinnear, Aaron Eckhart, Crispin Glover, Pruitt Taylor Vince
Music Rolfe Kent
Cinematography Jean-Yves Escoffier
Edited by Joel Plotch, Steven Weisberg
Production, company Gramercy Pictures, Intermedia, Pacifica Film, Propaganda Films, ab'-strakt pictures
Distributed by USA Films
Released May 11, 2000 (Cannes), September 08, 2000
Running time 105 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $25 million
Box office $29.4 million
Netflix ID 60002844

About Nurse Betty

Black comedy film about a small town housewife-waitress who suffers a breakdown after witnessing her husband's murder. In a fugue state, she starts obsessively pursuing her favorite soap opera character.

Achievement of Nurse Betty

The film won the 2000 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay. Renée Zellweger won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

Top Facts You Did Not Know About Nurse Betty

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Latest information about Nurse Betty updated on July 28 2021.