Nurse Betty

After two acclaimed independent films in which he took a troubling look at male/female relations, director Neil LaBute moves on to less controversial ground in this dark comedy. Betty Sizemore (Renee Zellweger) is a woman from Kansas City who waits tables at a diner and is married to an insensitive ...more

Director Neil LaBute blends genres in this intriguing but never quite successful entry -- it was his first film working from someone else's script -- that resembles a throwback to Joel and Ethan Coen's films of the 1980s, only without their supreme skill. On the plus side, however, Nurse Betty is one of the rare films that improves as it goes along, and the performances are mostly first-rate, especially those of Morgan Freeman, whose characterization is steady and sturdy, and the delightfully ...more