Nurse Betty

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Movie
German title Nurse Betty
Original title Nurse Betty
Country of production USA , Germany
original language English , Spanish
Publishing year 2000
length 110 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 14
Rod
Director Neil LaBute
script John C. Richards
James Flamberg
production Steve Golin
Gail Mutrux
music Rolfe Kent
camera Jean-Yves Escoffier
cut Joel Plotch
Steven Weisberg
occupation

Nurse Betty (cross-reference: Nurse Betty - Dangerous Dreams ) is a crime comedy directed by Neil LaBute in 2000. Renée Zellweger played the leading role .

action

Del Sizemore, the husband of the waitress Betty Sizemore, is scalped and then murdered by two criminals, father Charlie and son Wesley, who feel betrayed by Del, because of his drug deals. Unaware of the drug deals, Betty happens to witness while watching her favorite soap A Reason to Love on TV. Shocked and suppressing the murder, she mixes reality with the series and from then on imagines that she is with the character Dr. David Ravell was engaged. So, regardless of the police investigation, she drives from her home in Kansas to Los Angeles to meet him.

After she was able to save the life of a patient with a technique she knew from the series, she got a job in a hospital and was able to sublet with Rosa. Together they go in search of Dr. David Ravell. Rosa finds out that this is played by actor George McCord. She brings the two together at a charity event. Betty talks to David as if they were in the TV series, which impresses him so much that he gets involved in the supposed game.

Tolerated by the producer of the series, George wants to integrate Betty into the series and relies on her spontaneity - he thinks Betty is trying to play a role in order to get into the series. When the recordings are about to be made, Betty is very irritated, which makes George feel exposed. He speaks to her so insistently that she comes to and remembers what happened. She leaves the TV studio, goes to Rosa and wants to go back to Kansas.

Meanwhile, Charlie and Wesley are after Betty and suspect her to be a cunning gangster who has run away with the drugs they are looking for. Charlie has 35 years of experience in his "job" and it could be his last assignment, Wesley is young, inexperienced and does more than he thinks. They finally find Betty's car in front of Rosa's apartment and the drugs hidden in it.

To carry out their mission, the criminals threaten Betty and Rosa. When the doorbell rings, the sheriff investigating Del's murder and a reporter are at the door. They too are initially kept in check by Wesley in Rosa's living room, while Charlie reveals to Betty in the next room that he doesn't want to kill her, but only wants to see her, and that she - unlike him - is a good person. When Wesley watches an episode of the TV soap with the three prisoners, there is a short scramble and an exchange of fire in which the sheriff shoots Wesley, shoots Charlie and Betty gets at Charlie's gun in the course of this. Charlie asks Betty to give him back his gun and let him go because he'd rather be dead than in jail. Shortly after he left the room with the gun, Betty winced at the sound of a gunshot.

George McCord gives Betty a role on his television show. The film ends with a scene in Italy in which Betty is sitting in a café and the Italian version A Reason to Love is on TV with her as the actress.

Reviews

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung described the film as "delicious" and "exciting".

Michael Wilmington praised the cast and direction in the Chicago Tribune .

epd Film 11/2000: “As an actor film Nurse Betty is pure bliss, as a comedy it is more entertaining than a film and as a sublime essay about love, it is as intelligent as it is touching. And thanks to his positive attitude towards fictional imagery and dreaming, he is basically a declaration of love for the cinema itself. What more do you want from a film? "

The lexicon of international films said: "Criminal farce that focuses on the psychological condition of its protagonists in order to diagnose their deficits as a symptom of a collective illness."

Awards

background

The production of the film cost an estimated 24 million US dollars . It grossed $ 25 million in US cinemas.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nurse Betty ( Memento from March 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) in the Dirk Jasper FilmLexikon
  2. ↑ www.rottentomatoes.com
  3. ↑ Nurse Betty. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Business Data for Nurse Betty