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Release Date
• USA: Sep 8, 2000
• UK: 1 Sep 2000
DVD Release Date
• R1: Apr 3, 2001
Budget $24,000,000
Official Website:
Nurse Betty Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for strong violence, pervasive language and a scene of sexuality.
Running Time
1 hour, 50 minutes
Country USA, Germany
Studio ab'-strakt pictures, Gramercy Pictures, IMF, Pacifica Film Distribution, Propaganda Films
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• Nurse Betty
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Genre: Crime, Thriller, Comedy, Murder, On The Road, Drugs, Black Comedy, Satire, Psychos, Police, Hostage, Infidelity, Tragedy, Gore, Doctor
Tagline: She's chasing a dream... they're chasing her.
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. The popular TV daytime drama "A Reason to Love" has an especially devoted viewer in Betty, a young woman with a good heart and a bad marriage. Her no-good car salesman husband, Del (Aaron Eckhart), treats her like dirt and forgets her birthday; as Betty quietly celebrates alone, she can barely remember her deferred dreams of becoming a real nurse.At home one night watching a videotape of that day's episode, Betty watches raptly as her favorite character, Dr. David Ravell, stares up at the moon and says, "I know there's someone special out there for me." Betty feels as if he's speaking directly to her. That is, until her husband comes home with two men to negotiate a shady business deal. As she tries to watch her show, Betty becomes an accidental witness to this deal going fatally awry: Del offends courtly hit man Charlie (Morgan Freeman) and his excitable protege Wesley (Chris Rock), and is violently dispatched. Betty, traumatized by this savage event, enters into a
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| Directed by |
Neil LaBute
In the Company of Men, Possession, Your Friends & Neighbors |
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Rolfe Kent
Sideways, About Schmidt, Wedding Crashers |
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