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Nurse Betty

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 34 critic reviews
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Based on 9 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
John C. Richards (also story)
James Flamberg
Directed by: Neil LaBute
Release Date:
Theatrical: September 8, 2000
DVD: April 3, 2001
Running Time: 112 minutes, Color
Origin: Germany/ USA
Summary
RATING: R for strong violence, pervasive language and a scene of sexuality
Starring Renée Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock, and Greg Kinnear
A film about a widow's (Zellweger) post-traumatic obsession with a soap star doctor (Kinnear).
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
The superb screenplay won an award at Cannes this year for good reason.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
As ever, Freeman delivers miracles; he's as good as it gets.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
He (LaBute) pulls the farce and the violence and the fantasies together with a deft touch and a sweetness rare in American films -- especially his.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
It is easily the finest American comedy since David O. Russell's "Flirting With Disaster," another road movie that never ran out of poignantly funny surprises.
Read Full Review >Variety Emanuel Levy
Few actresses can convey the kind of honesty and humanity that Zellweger does here -- it's hard to imagine the film without her dominant, thoroughly credible performance.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
This offbeat and unpredictable comedy-thriller throws so many curveballs, one right after another, that I doubt I've had more fun at an American movie this year.
Read Full Review >Film.com Ernest Hardy
There's a shrewd satiric method to LaBute's madness, and a payoff in comedic gold.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Schickel
All in all, Nurse Betty is a wonderful movie, unpredictably alive to the fact that the American citizenry is a lot stranger than we like to admit.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
The movie has a deliberately screw-loose feel.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Jay Carr
It's lively, edgy, full of zigs and zags, juicy performances, and offbeat fun.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Betty moves into Coen Brothers territory, a land so unreal that horrific behavior wrings laughter from a disbelieving audience.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
It's a nicely tart gulp of grown-up wit and cynicism -- with, for a change, a cherry on top.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf
The resulting piece resonates upon the American condition, deliciously detailing the whimsy, violence, intolerance, and shallow fantasies that fuel this nation. Oh yeah, and it's funny.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Ella Taylor
This delightful and compassionate romp achieves precisely that rare quality -- grace -- that sets Betty apart from the pack.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
Nurse Betty is this year's "Being John Malkovich"-an utter original with a little something to say and a way of saying it that manages to be at once delightful and bilious.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
One of those films where you don't know whether to laugh or cringe, and find yourself doing both. It's a challenge: How do we respond to this loaded material?
Read Full Review >New York Post Jonathan Foreman
This oddly cheerful, decreasingly dark comedy actually works and can boast some of the most enjoyable performances of the year.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
A black comedy that features Renee Zellweger as the most adorable psychiatric-trauma victim ever.
Read Full Review >USA Today Susan Wloszczyna
Observing Zellweger as she dispenses her brand of movie magic definitely is good for what ails you.
Read Full Review >Village Voice J. Hoberman
Betty sustains her character, the movie fails to maintain its own.
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
A feminist sitcom tricked up with garish violence and garrulous hit men.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard
Badly photographed, clumsily edited, and lacking any discernable cinematic style.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Uncomfortable hodgepodge of poignant fantasy, showbiz satire and crime thriller.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Its warped, disconnected sensibility makes for an oddly distant piece of work.
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Zellweger is as charming as ever, and it's good to find LaBute working with a script by writers who don't fully share his crabbed, cramped view of human nature.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Sarah Hepola
Its uneven comedy may leave moviegoers yearning for the confidently choreographed banter and moral sludge that marked LaBute's previous outings.
Read Full Review >Film.com Robert Horton
This fantasy-tinged romance leaves a distinctly bitter aftertaste.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Charles Taylor
LaBute is some kind of find: an auteur for people who don't like movies.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.6 (out of 10) based on 9 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Mitch H. gave it an 8:
This a a very funny movie. Renee Zellweger performance is great. One of the best actress we have now. It's a great movie with great actors and screenplay thats different a refreshing.
Gilbert gave it an 8:
I don't know that we needed to actually SEE Chris Rock... [Spoiler Deleted]. And it is aimless and unfocused. But. It's also funny, touching and oddly compelling, and it's got good performances from Zellweger, Freeman and Rock. Plus, Alison "5'11 My Jim Royle" Janney is in it. So it can't be bad.
Tom S. gave it a 4:
Very good actors and acting. The three leads, Zwellig, Kinnear, and Freeman, were perfect. Funny moments. But a racial element left an impression of obliviousness. There were only two black people in the film, and they both were killed in the end. Something wrong here.
Phillip W. gave it a 2:
I thought this movie was terrible. A "dark comedy" that just wasn't funny. I love all the actors, but despised the roles they played. There were no characters in the movie I liked or was interested in.
Chris M. gave it a 10:
It's a thin, thin line between soap opera and real life. Morgan Freeman somehow finds something new in the familiar character of The Hit Man. Ms. Zellweger is extraordinary playing a character more complex than in most dramas you see. Nurse Betty is a special film.
Jacques R. gave it a 10:
I just couldn't stop smiling during this movie. Aaron Eckhart was terrific, and Greg Kinnear, someone I usually love to hate, was superb in his role, which also could have been paper thin if played by any other actors.
