Comedy about a widow's post-traumatic obsession with a soap star.Comedy about a widow's post-traumatic obsession with a soap star.Comedy about a widow's post-traumatic obsession with a soap star.
- Awards
- 5 wins & 14 nominations total
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaProduction designer Charles William Breen used "The Wizard of Oz (1939)" as inspiration for the look of this movie. If you look closely, you'll find hidden references that pay homage to the 1939 movie.
- GoofsAs Charlie and Wesley are walking away from their broken down car, they argue about the picture of Betty that Charlie keeps looking at. Wesley grabs the picture from Charlie's hand and rips it into 3 pieces. Charlie runs back and picks it up and puts the pieces back together. Only now it is only torn in 2 pieces.
- Crazy creditsWhen the end credits are done, the film's title appears
- Alternate versionsThe version aired on TV in the USA removes the swearing.
- ConnectionsEdited into Nurse Betty: Deleted Scenes (2001)
- SoundtracksWhatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Séra, Séra)
Written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
Performed by Pink Martini
Courtesy of Heinz Records
Featured review
Nurse Betty (2000)
This is a sleeper, a dark comedy with enough inventive twists to call to mind The Truman Show but with a greater sense of reality to hold it down. Renee Zellweger is flawless as the naive, sweet, but utterly detached young woman named Betty who is addicted to a soap opera called "A Reason to Love." This seems sweet enough, but her husband is a jerk (totally) and things start to spiral, and get dizzy, as reality even for the viewer starts to shift ground.
Not that you are ever confused about what is happening or who the good guys are. The good guys are not Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock, for sure, as this unlikely and comedic father and son duo get involved, incidentally at first, in Betty's strange inner and outer life. A chase of sorts ensues, the soap opera becomes reality, and then reality becomes soap opera. And it's really hilarious and inventive and fast paced.
Is it a total work of genius? Probably not. Maybe Charlie Kaufman would have added another twist in there (I'm not sure how), and certainly some of the side characters could have seemed less cardboard, or less awkward as actors. But Zellweger is unbelievable (really, your jaw might drop at how convincing she could play her mental blindness, and her awakening, of sorts). And Morgan Freeman is his usually convincing and engaging self.
The utterly disgusting violence of one 20 second scene might turn off some viewers near the beginning, but if you can keep watching, the movie gets better from there. Much better.
This is a sleeper, a dark comedy with enough inventive twists to call to mind The Truman Show but with a greater sense of reality to hold it down. Renee Zellweger is flawless as the naive, sweet, but utterly detached young woman named Betty who is addicted to a soap opera called "A Reason to Love." This seems sweet enough, but her husband is a jerk (totally) and things start to spiral, and get dizzy, as reality even for the viewer starts to shift ground.
Not that you are ever confused about what is happening or who the good guys are. The good guys are not Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock, for sure, as this unlikely and comedic father and son duo get involved, incidentally at first, in Betty's strange inner and outer life. A chase of sorts ensues, the soap opera becomes reality, and then reality becomes soap opera. And it's really hilarious and inventive and fast paced.
Is it a total work of genius? Probably not. Maybe Charlie Kaufman would have added another twist in there (I'm not sure how), and certainly some of the side characters could have seemed less cardboard, or less awkward as actors. But Zellweger is unbelievable (really, your jaw might drop at how convincing she could play her mental blindness, and her awakening, of sorts). And Morgan Freeman is his usually convincing and engaging self.
The utterly disgusting violence of one 20 second scene might turn off some viewers near the beginning, but if you can keep watching, the movie gets better from there. Much better.
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- Apr 30, 2010
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Сестричка Бетті
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $35,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $25,170,054
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $7,145,950
- Sep 10, 2000
- Gross worldwide
- $29,364,989
- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
- 2.35 : 1
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