Nurse Betty

Nurse Betty
Nurse Betty
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Neil LaBute
Screenplay by	John C. Richards; James Flamberg;
Story by	John C. Richards
Produced by	Steve Golin; Gail Mutrux;
Starring	Morgan Freeman; Renée Zellweger; Chris Rock; Greg Kinnear; Aaron Eckhart; Crispin Glover; Pruitt Taylor Vince;
Cinematography	Jean-Yves Escoffier
Edited by	Joel Plotch; Steven Weisberg
Music by	Rolfe Kent
Production; companies	Gramercy Pictures; Intermedia; Pacifica Film; Propaganda Films; ab'-strakt pictures;
Distributed by	USA Films (United States); Summit Entertainment (International)
Release dates	May 11, 2000 (Cannes); September 8, 2000;
Running time	105 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$25 million
Box office	$29.4 million

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. Archived from the original on October 7, 2020. Retrieved March 14, 2021.
^ "Nurse Betty (2000)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Archived from the original on March 14, 2017. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
^ Levy, Emanuel (May 12, 2000). "Nurse Betty". Variety. Archived from the original on January 23, 2018. Retrieved July 7, 2020.
^ "Corrections". Variety. November 9, 2000. Archived from the original on October 4, 2020. Retrieved March 14, 2021.

[1] "Nurse Betty (2000)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on May 17, 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2021.

[2] Daly, Steve (September 15, 2000). "'Nurse Betty': Daze of Her Lives". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on October 7, 2020. Retrieved March 14, 2021.

[BOM-3] "Nurse Betty (2000)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Archived from the original on March 14, 2017. Retrieved March 26, 2017.

[4] Levy, Emanuel (May 12, 2000). "Nurse Betty". Variety. Archived from the original on January 23, 2018. Retrieved July 7, 2020.

[Corrections-5] "Corrections". Variety. November 9, 2000. Archived from the original on October 4, 2020. Retrieved March 14, 2021.

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