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I guess I'll start this like a lot of other people have, if you enjoyed films such as Grosse Pointe Blank and Pulp Fiction, you'll probably like the dark humor of Nurse Betty. This slight thriller, written by John C. Richards, focuses on Renee Zellweger's (from Jerry Maguire) character Betty, a waitress in a small Kansas town. Betty is married to used car salesman Del Sizemore (Aaron Eckhart, Erin Brockovich), who has a cheaten' heart (insert country twang). Well Del thinks he is a big shot so he steals some items from some people in Kansas City, then (this is the stupid part) tries to sell what he stole back to the people he stole it from. Now that sort of thing would get you shot in the old west, so what the hell, let's carry that wonderful tradition on into a new millennium. So Del gets whacked (and scalped) by a couple of hit men, Charlie (Morgan Freeman, Under Suspicion) and Wesley (Chris Rock, Dogma), who were hired by the folks in KC to do that as well as recover the stolen property (hidden in a Chrysler). One little hitch though, Betty witnesses the murder and then runs off with the Chrysler to LA. She does this because the trauma of the attack made her go delusional to where she now believes that she is involved with Dr. David Ravell, who is a character on her soap opera, A Reason to Love. Ravell is portrayed by George McCord, who is then portrayed by former Later host Greg Kinnear, who you may remember from You've Got Mail (Bob Costas is another former host of Later). When Betty gets to LA she meets Rosa (Tia Texada) when she saves the life of Rosa's brother. At first Rosa tries to help Betty find the TV doctor, but then discovers that Betty is crazy. So to try and prove that she is crazy, Rosa helps hook Betty up with the doc. Well the fine TV doctor just thinks Betty is acting, but his producer Lyla (Allison Janney, American Beauty) isn't so sure. I'll leave the rest to your imagination, unless you go see the film, at which point you will know exactly what happens. I will tell you that Charlie and Wesley must hunt her down, and that Betty has two guardian angels in the form of a Barney Fife type sheriff in Elden (Pruitt Taylor Vince) and she also has the local reporter Roy (Crispin Glover) who you know better as George McFly in Back to the Future. Be sure and watch for the scene that director Neil LaBute threw in where McFly plays out his famous line from that film just before meeting Biff's fist. The others in this film written by John C. Richards include Steven Gilborn, Sheila Kelley, Laird Mackintosh, Kathleen Wilhoite, and Harriet Sansom Harris. Nurse Betty has a lot of good comedic moments, and is a dark comedy at heart. I enjoyed this film immensely, and as thus must give it nine out of ten couches for the About-Movies.com rating. I would have scored it higher if Renee would have shown off her cute little butt or maybe some frontal nudity. Well time for my lobotomy. Last updated: Thursday, March 20, 2008 02:49:43 AM |
