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Release Date: 03 April, 2001 Retail Price: $26.98 OUR Price: $23.99 You SAVE: $2.99! Cast: Complete Cast (11 total) |
Nurse Betty Reviews
terrific satire
This is a brilliant satire on the blurring of the line between TV and reality.
When life has become so dull and tame that millions fixate on TV as an alternate, this is precisely the kind of medicine we need.
Betty is a downtrodden but ever-optimistic waitress whose life shuttles between the humdrum (her job) and the abusive (her husband).
Her only refuge is a medical soap, which seems not only better but more real than her own.
When her husband the abuser himself is abused--right out of the picture--she cracks, and pursues her dream: the soap opera, which she now thinks is real.
Miraculously, she gets her foot in both the real medical world and the soap opera world (she can't tell the two apart).
Eventually, reality catches up, destroying her delusions, but (in the way of all good romance and comedy) allowing her to make her illusions real.
Interestingly, the most hard-bitten and seemingly realistic characters, the hit men, turn out to be the most deluded and fantasy-obsessed.
First-rate satire throughout.
SURPRISINGLY GOOD
I have to admit that at first I did not know what to expect from the film, but as it turns out it was a very pleasant surprise!
Nurse Betty, brings to the screen the story of a young woman from Kansas who after witnessing her husband's gruesome death goes into shock and believes she is living in the world of her favorite soap opera with all that that entails. Things get a bit more complicated when her husband's murderers come after her...
Renee Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, and the rest of the cast (with the exception of Chris Rock) carry out their performances very well!
The only major setback is in relation to Chris Rock, who overdoes it with his overly disruptive character, thus becoming annoying and tiring very early on.
In a nutshell, though not a masterpiece, Nurse Betty will provide for an evening's entertainment, though you might want to stop short of buying it.
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