Nurse Betty
2000
**½
Director: Neil LaBute
Cast: Renee Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock, Greg Kinnear, Aaron Eckhart, Crispin Glover, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Tia Texada, Allison Janney, Kathleen Wilhoite
A small town waitress, who is traumatised by her husband's murder, becomes determined to track down her ex-fiancé, who in reality is a character from her favorite soap opera. The hitmen who killed her husband are on her trail. Neil LaBute's dark comedy clearly came out in the wake of Pulp Fiction, Fargo, and The Big Lebowski, but unlike those films, it hasn't stood the test of time. The script by John C. Richards and James Flamberg doesn't feature many believable moments and Chris Rock's character really tested my patience.
