Nurse Betty

             Nurse Betty is a movie that has received numerous great reviews; will it live up two it? The Boston Globe gives it three and a half out of four stars and says it's lively, edgy, full of zigs and zags, juicy performances and off beat fun. The Chicago Sun Times gives it three out of 4 stars, and the New York Times says it's the finest American comedy since Flirting with Disaster. Good review after good review this movie is getting. I couldn't find one paper or critic that didn't enjoy this movie. Here's another from Entertainment Weekly, they say "there's no way to encapsulate the bigness of heart with which Nurse Betty expands to embrace creation." Reading all these good reviews had me excited to go see the movie, only to let me down. The story line was horrible and I was wondering if the critics saw the same movie I saw.
             The movie starts out in Kansas City with Betty (Renne Zellweger) who works in a luncheonette as a waitress. She is a huge fan of the soap opera "A Reason to Love", especially one male doctor in the soap Dr. David Ravell (Greg Kenner). She is also married to a cheating, drug dealing husband named Del. Betty is at home one night and her husband is talking to two thugs (Chris Rock and Morgan Feedman) who were involved in the drug dealing with Del. She witnesses them scalping and shooting him dead while she was watch her soap opera. Betty goes insane, suffering from post traumatic stress and thinking that she used to be engaged to her favorite actor Dr. David Ravell and decides to travel all the way to Southern California to find him. So she goes there and finally tracks him down with some help form a friend, she meet when she got to California.
             In the meantime the two thugs are looking for her because they find out that she witnessed the murder and she has cocaine in the car that she didn't know about. When Betty finally talks to Dr. Ravell, he and th...

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