Nurse Betty

Starring: Morgan Freeman, Rene Zellweger Director: Neil LaBute Original UK Premiere: 2000 Dvd Release: 3rd September, 2001 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding

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Nurse Betty is a 2000 comedy film that stars Renee Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock & Greg Kinnear. Betty, a sweet & innocent Kansas waitress whos crazy about a soap opera goes really crazy when she sees her husband murdered by hit men. Betty is a waitress in a diner, who pours coffee behind her back while her eyes are glued to her favorite soap opera A Reason to Love. When she can tear herself away from the screen, shes the kindest, most thoughtful person one could meet, polite & considerate to everyone in her small town. She has no idea that her husband is selling drugs at his car dealership or screwing his secretary on his office couch. When she calls to leave a message about borrowing a Buick LeSabre for her birthday, her husband gets off his secretary & on the phone to ask Betty to take a different car. The two hit men Betty had unknowing served at the diner show up at the house with Bettys husband, while shes watching a taped episode of her soap. A grisly scene of torture & death ensues & the hit men learn that the drugs are in a car -- but not which one. Posters Of Nurse Betty

A frenzied, screwball comedy with a lighter-than-light touch, Nurse Betty is a radical departure for director Neil LaBute, who helmed the vitriolic In the Company of Men & Your Friends & Neighbours. Betty is a perky Kansas waitress whose sole happiness comes from her obsession with the television soap A Reason to Love, starring dreamboat doctor David Ravell . When her slimy car-dealer husband enters into a drug transaction that goes horribly awry, Betty inadvertently witnesses the carnage and, in shock, becomes Nurse Betty, determined to reunite with her long-lost love, Dr Ravell. Tailed by two hit men , Betty heads to LA a determined woman, unaware she has their huge drug stash in tow. Though it takes a good half-hour to get going, once LaBute & the film hit top speed, its a surreal, often brilliant ride, as Bettys fantasy & reality collide, with unexpected developments. The screenplay is wickedly inventive & like his previous films, LaBute has assembled a peerless cast. Zellweger is charming & daffy in her best performance since Jerry Maguire & Freeman is by turns menacing & touchingly romantic in his obsession with Betty. Kinnear is the epitome of self-serving shallowness & Rock finally shakes his stand-up persona & emerges as a great comic actor. Look also for a scene-stealing Allison Janney as the producer of Kinnears soap. Most films rarely get such talent operating at full capacity & Nurse Betty soars because of it.

Morgan Freeman is an American actor who was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Although he has said in interviews that he has never been cast opposite of a love interest in any of his movies, Freeman has been married twice. His first marriage was to Jeanette Adair Bradshaw. His second was to Myrna Colley-Lee. He has two children from each of his wives. His sons names are Alphonse & Saifoulaye. His daughters are Deena & Morgana. Freeman worked as a mechanic in the US Air Force. He has also earned his private pilots license. 1986 Nominated for Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, in Street Smart. 1989 Nominated for Oscar for Best Actor for his role as a chauffeur in Driving Miss Daisy. 1994 Nominated for Oscar for Best Actor, in The Shawshank Redemption. Posters Of Morgan Freeman

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Renee Kathleen Zellweger is an Academy Award -winning movie actress. Renee, the daughter of a Swiss father & a Norwegian mother, graduated from Katy High School in Katy, a suburb of Houston in 1987. She was a cheerleader & gymnast & participated in the drama club. After high school, she went to the University of Texas at Austin to major in English. Though she took a drama class only because she needed a fine arts credit to complete her degree, it reminded her of how much she loved acting. During this time, she supported herself by taking a series of waitressing jobs; at 18 working at Sugars Go-Go Bar in Austin, serving drinks in a tight skirt & tiny top. By the time she graduated from college, she knew that she wanted to pursue a career in acting. She immediately began auditioning for commercials & small films that were being shot in Texas, including Reality Bites, 8 Seconds & The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Her breakout role was in 1996 s Jerry Maguire, where she played the romantic interest of Tom Cruise s character. Posters Of Nurse Betty

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Neil LaBute is an American film director, screenwriter & playwright. Born in Detroit, Michigan, LaBute was raised in Spokane, Washington. He studied theater at Brigham Young University, where he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. At BYU, he also met actor Aaron Eckhart, who would play leading roles in many of his films. At BYU, he produced a number of plays that pushed the envelope of what was allowable at the strait-laced Latter-day Saint university, some of which were immediately shut down after their premieres. LaBute also did graduate work at the University of Kansas, New York University & the Royal Academy of London. In 1993, he returned to Brigham Young University to premier his play In the Company of Men, for which he received an award from the Association for Mormon Letters. Afterward, he taught drama & film at IPFW in Fort Wayne, Indiana in the early 1990s where he adapted & filmed the play, launching his career as a film director. Posters Of Nurse Betty

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