Nurse Betty

(2000)

★ 6.1 IMDb · 441 votes

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Thriller, Drama

Year: 2000

Runtime: 108 мин

Country: Germany, United States of America

Director: Neil LaBute

Cast: Морган Фримен, Рене Зеллвегер, Крис Рок, Грег Киннир, Аарон Екгарт, Тиа Техада, Криспин Гловер, Прюитт Тейлор Винс, Эллисон Дженни, Kathleen Wilhoite

Plot

What happens when a person decides that life is merely a state of mind? If you're Betty, a small-town waitress and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kansas, you refuse to believe that you can't be with the love of your life just because he doesn't really exist. After all, life is no excuse for not living. Traumatized by a savage event, Betty enters into a fugue state that allows -- even encourages -- her to keep functioning... in a kind of alternate reality.

Kansas City waitress, Betty (Renée Zellweger), with dreams of becoming a nurse, becomes delusional after seeing her no-good car salesman husband murdered. Becoming delusional from shock, she becomes convinced that she is the former fiancée of her soap opera idol. What she also believes is that the soap opera is real and goes to Los Angeles, California to find the hospital where he works as a cardiologist. Meanwhile, her husband's murderers are searching for the drugs stolen by her husband and, as luck would have it, they are stored in the trunk of the car in which she drove off. Charlie (Morgan Freeman), an aging hitman planning his retirement after this job, also becomes delusional about the woman he is tracking.