Nurse Betty

I say about 10 movies should try to imitate this film and about 20 movies should be influenced by this movie in the future. This movie is so original that so many movies in the future should try to learn from it how this movie tells the story, how this movie charactorizes each actors.I had a VHS tape for years and I bought the DVD back in 2009 and probably have watched 5 times. It was not a lot since I have watched movies like <Blade Runner><Black Rain><Someone to watch over me><A Better Tomorrow 2><The Killer><Time of the Gypsies> <Bugsy>about 20-30 times in my life. But still it's a lot of times watching this movie and each time I saw, it just made me so surprised how much original this movie is.Don't you ever guess this movie is about some woman who worked as a nurse who is dedicated to a nurse work all her life or something. This story is far from it.The story to be told in a most short way is,...There is this woman who is married to this stupid man who is a second hand car shop owner who is messing around with stupid women from his shop all the time. He is doing other bad things with mob kind of guys dealing with drugs and this time he stole from them. He got killed in the house while the wife Renee Zellweger is watching this 'almost crazy about' soap Opera (Drama) `A Reason To Love' she witnesses her husband's death and she becomes confused that she is part of that drama and the doctor from that drama is real and she is his lover. This is kind of a mental thing by shock. After the killers are all gone not knowing that Renee was exist, and the cops searching the house, she decides to go to LA to find the doctor from the hospital which is not even exist-only in the drama it is. Now the new journey begins to her.There are so many good things in this movie.The way to LA, she meets this old lady working at a restaurant and when Renee talks about the doctor she is about to meet- she said she was his lover once but they were apart some time ago but she is going to LA to be together again. When the old lady hears the whole story and the name of the doctor and the name of the hospital, she knew that what she is talking about this from the drama. If this is from my country, South Korea, the lady probably would shout at her or treated her as a crazy woman. But she didn't. She worried about her that she might get hurt finding out that she was wrong and everything was her imagination. She even blessed her that she will end up with acheiving something in LA. She appeared such a short time but she was a great actor. I think her name is Tina Smith(actress).Also as usual, Morgan Freeman is a mob who killed Renee's husband (Not actually killed but part of it) treated Renee gracefully because right after seeing her he tought her as someone different. Someone pure minded.Criss Rock was anothr mob who was a tough bad mouthed guy who actually kills the husband and a bunch of other people who is Morgan's son. He did his job well too.Greg Kinnear had two faces. A sweet one and a very cruel one. He acted as a doctor charactor from the drama `A Reason To Love' and when Renee approached him thinking that he is her real boyfriend, he was totally glued by her attitude. He literally was shocked. First he thought that she wanted some small roll from the TV drama. He thought that she is an actress desperately looking for any roll for the TV show. But then she was so different. She was so lovable. But when finally he puts her to the TV show, she was freezed and couldn't act, he was so angry at her and shouts to her to death.The ending was a great happy one and you will love it.The director succeeds to make more movies and now he made many. But sadly none of them became a bluck buster.[...]

We had forgotten how funny it was

I must confess upfront that I really like Renee Zellweger. There is something vulnerable in almost all of her performances, something sad and yet hopeful in her eyes. Here she is a waitress with a straying, drug dealing, car salesman husband. But no matter: she's hopelessly in love with a doctor, rather, a character on an afternoon TV soap opera. When her husband is killed, she sets out to Los Angeles with the delusion that she is somehow part of the doctor's/actor's life. And she succeeds after a fashion. She even dresses like a nurse, all white and crisp, and tries to get a job in a fictional hospital. People think she is joking, but she is delusionally serious. Then she saves an accident patient's life with a procedure she saw used in the soap opera....The movie is often funny, with pathos, jeopardy, and a completely satisfying outcome. My only criticism is with Chris Rock, who plays one of the men who is chasing Nurse Betty (Zellweger). Chris Rock plays Chris Rock, the vulgar comedian whose only schtick is words that most people do not say in polite society. I'm not amused by his comedy routine and I'm not entertained by his performance in this movie.

Do you ever have movies in your collection that you watch for a lift or a laugh? This is one of those. It's funny, with a little action and a little irony. It's got Chris Rock with Morgan Freeman as his father and Renee Zellweeger as the killer wife of Aaron Eckhart and lover to a soap opera doctor who she goes off to Hollywood to search for because she believes that they are living the soap opera. Along the way, Morgan has developed a crush 😍 on Betty that he too has fantasies of living. All in all, with these strange bedfellows, it's hilarious! It contains something for everyone!!

Morgan Freeman is not right in the head either.He is a good guy, even though he is a criminal. He falls in love. His son is a sociopath,though. This is a very unusual movie and it definitely is not a comedy. Every time, they show the soap opera , they show the hospital, that is the exact same hospital, that's on General Hospital. That was funny.

Great story & funny

I had seen the movie before and liked it. I purchased it for my daughter to see on her player. This copy played just fine until near the end in the scene with Freeman, Rock, and Kinnear. Then it stopped playing. We kept hitting the forward button on the remote until it would continue playing. This happened about 5 times before it continued to the end of the movie without interruption. I am going to play it again on my player and see if I have the same problem. If I do, I'll be contacting you about a replacement. Thank you.G. Hopkins

Ok, you have to trust me on this. This is a great movie. If the fake violence upsets you (the blood isn't real, and the people are actors) you can fast-forward through the offending two minutes at the beginning and the end, and just enjoy the immensely entertaining and sometimes hysterically funny ride with Renee, Morgan, Chris and Greg. The entire cast is great. Renee is brilliant. I've watched this movie 3 times over the years and I laugh harder each time. As funny as it is, there are some scenes with Renee that are amazingly touching. Don't miss this one.

This film was a real suprise for me a good one at that. Renee zellweger really holds her own amgonst the male cast. I would say to anyone dont watch the trailer as it put me off the film to begin with i feel the trailer doesnt show the film in the best light, worth buying thanks amazon.

A great cast with Renee Zellweger, Chris Rock and Morgan Freeman. The story of a waitress in Kansas with a horrible cheating hubby. She is obsessed with a hospital soap & one of the dishy Drs in particular, The low life husband makes the mistake of stealing some drugs and Betty ends up seeing him being murdered by their owners (Freeman and Rock). She then goes off into a fantasy world - which happens to incorporate quite a lot of small references to the Wizard of Oz if you watch carefully. She goes off in pursuit of the tv Dr not realising the drugs are in the back of the car she takes, so Rock & Freeman set off after her. It's a great film, can't understand why it's not shown on tv as there are a lot of laughs in it even in the darker moments ! Highly recommended

Cela faisait longtemps que j'avais envie de revoir cette comédie policière très bien écrite, drôle et au cast tout à fait charmant. Le son est bon et l'image, très médiocre, mais au moins, le plaisir de visionnage est bien là.

I have to say I was expecting more from this movie. Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock in the same movie I thought it has to be good. I just dont really see them as Hitman or bad guys. Sorry but just it doesnt work. The story is crazy as well. A fan of a doctor movie soap that gets delusional. An older Hitman ' Freeman' that falls in love with this coffee house assistant that pretends to be a nurse. Giving it a 3 stars is being generous and wont watch it again. Seeing some people give this movie 5 stars is beyond me. If this is 5 stars may all of us better get ready for the demise of the movie industry based on viewers perception of accepting all thats given and give it a 5 stars. When you give a movie that rating it has to be great to the level of The Shawshank of Redemption since Morgan Freeman stars in it.Thats a 5 star movie. Chris Rock as a bad guy? Give me a brake. Can never work no matter how good of an actor he is.

Die Story des Films klingt nach einem kultigen Indeopendent-Streifen: Süße Blonde muss zusehen, wie ihr Mann ermordet wird und schlittert durch den daraufhin erlittenen Gedächtnisverlust von einer peinlichen Situation in die nächste.Die Wirklichkeit sieht ein bißchen anders aus: Diverse typisch amerikanische Elemente umrahmen das Ganze. Natürlich darf da eine romantische Happy-End-Liebesgeschichte nicht fehlen, sei sie auch noch so dämlich.Die vier Sterne verdient sich der Film durch den coolen Morgan Freeman, der glaubwürdig den Möchtegern-Killer darstellt. Außerdem spielt Renee Zellweeger gewohnt toll.Die Witze reißen einen nicht vom Hocker, es darf aber tüchtig geschmunzelt werden.