| 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)[1] |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $25 million[2] |
| Box office | $29.4 million[3] |
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 housewife-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.[4] 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.[5]
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