Nurse Betty
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| Directed by | Neil LaBute |
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| Story by | John C. Richards |
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| Cinematography | Jean-Yves Escoffier |
| Edited by | Joel Plotch Steven Weisberg |
| Music by | Rolfe Kent |
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| Distributed by | USA Films (United States) Summit Entertainment (International) |
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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 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. 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.