Nurse Betty

Nurse Betty is a American film from 2000 directed by Neil LaBute. The film stars Renée Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock and Greg Kinnear. ==Story[ Edit] == Betty Sizemore leads an empty life as a friendly waitress and wife of a cheating man, Del. Her only recourse can find them in a soap opera, in which one of the roles is played by George McCord. She dreams to be like his girlfriend and him ever agree to meet. Del works as a car salesman and acts sneak into selling drugs. A deal runs out of control, with the result that he is assassinated by the terrible two Hitmen Charlie and Wesley. Father Charlie is an intelligent but cold-blooded man and his son Wesley kent, unlike himself, no shred of decency.

Betty witnesses the murder and touches in shock. She suffers from that moment to dissociative fugue and becomes convinced that she is the ex-fiance of Dr. David Ravell, the character of George. She begins a trip to Los Angeles to contact him and is now on their heels by the hit men, who think they was involved in the drug deal. Once we arrived in Los Angeles she comes in to the Hospital where she thinks he works. With high courage she does there job to sister to be. Due to a lack of experience and references, she refused.

Back outside, they witness a shooting. She saves the life of a seriously injured man by techniques that she has seen on the soap opera. The staff at the Hospital sees this and that is why they still offered a job. By her nice character and sympathy for the patients makes them feel loved by others and is invited to stay with Rosa Hernandez, a relative of one of the patients. She is Betty grateful for saving his life and wants to do her a favor. She does everything to make ' doctor David Ravell ' to find and notice something wrong with her if they find that he is a character.

To give her time to her anyway, she arranges a meeting with George. Betty is convinced that David is and introduces himself as his ex-fiance. George and his colleagues, including Director Lyla Branch, they think toneelspeelt and participate in the ' role play '. Over the evening he touches her In charmed and impressed by her ' talent for improvisation '. He thinks that she hopes to make her breakthrough as an actress and settles for her a guest role in the soap opera. On the set they initially did not understand what is going on and confuses them George. He is mad at her, because he has had to do a lot of trouble to give her a roll and she does not know to perform.

During a tantrum by George realizes Betty is finally that David does not exist and she can also recall murder. She returns to the home of Rosa to her stuff to pack up and leave. At that time, Charlie and Wesley her finally found, just as police officer Ballard and journalist Roy. Wesley loves Rosa, Ballard and Roy hostage while Charlie takes Betty apart. Charlie is during the quest fell in love with the idea of Betty. She thinks that he is going to kill her, but he wanted to see her ankle. The three hostages by Wesley to overpower people know him and shoot him dead. Soon read there sirens and used Charlie his own gun to end his life. Hereinafter referred to as Betty Gets a role in the soap opera and used the money to be trained to sister. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Background[ Edit] == Unlike Neil LaBute's previous films, Nurse Betty was made with a big budget. When the script was written, no one had expected that he was able to direct the film. That was the impetus for him to take on the Director.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" len="163" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]  In september 1998, it was announced that with Renée Zellweger, Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock was negotiated for playing the hoofdrolen.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-thesp_4-0" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]  Zellweger wanted the role, mainly because they like to play a strong and independent women had played and like to interpret a vulnerable Lady wanted. They told that they love was on the script and confident that LaBute had there ' something good ' would make.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" len="163" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [5]  it took a while before it was confirmed that they would play the title role, because she was busy with the shooting of The Bachelor (1999).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-thesp_4-1" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Initially, the film distributed by PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. That company, however, went into the sea with Universal Pictures and had to delete a number of films, including Nurse Betty.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" len="163" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [6]  less than two weeks later decided to release the film, Pacifica Film Distribution with Summit Entertainment and international distributor.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" len="163" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [7]  the financing of the film came largely from Germany. The shooting took place in the spring of 1999.Only a year later the movie premiere, at the Cannes Film Festival.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Nurse Betty was well received and was called LaBute's best film.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" len="163" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [8]  also from Zellweger was told they it one of her best roles played out of her whole career.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" len="163" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [9]  most of the critics were full of praise and only here and there, the film was criticized.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" len="165" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [10]  some were of the opinion that the murder of Del was too cruel, but Freeman explained that this was necessary to show how dangerous the hit men were.