Nurse Betty

Nurse Betty
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Neil LaBute
Screenplay by	John C. Richards James Flamberg
Story by	John C. Richards
Produced by	Steve Golin Gail Mutrux
Starring	Morgan Freeman Renée Zellweger Chris Rock Greg Kinnear Aaron Eckhart Crispin Glover Pruitt Taylor Vince
Cinematography	Jean-Yves Escoffier
Edited by	Joel Plotch Steven Weisberg
Music by	Rolfe Kent
Production companies	Gramercy Pictures Intermedia Pacifica Film Propaganda Films ab'-strakt pictures
Distributed by	USA Films (United States) Summit Entertainment (International)[1]
Release dates	May 11, 2000 (2000-05-11) (Cannes) September 8, 2000 (2000-09-08)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$25 million[2]
Box office	$29.4 million[3]

Nurse Betty is a 2000 American black comedy film directed by Neil LaBute and starring Renée Zellweger as the title character, a small town, Kansas housewife-waitress who suffers a nervous breakdown after witnessing her husband's torture murder, and starts obsessively pursuing her favorite television soap opera character (Greg Kinnear), while in a fugue state. Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock play the hitmen who killed her husband and subsequently pursue her to Los Angeles.

The film premiered at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.^[4] The film won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay. For her performance, Zellweger won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. The film was also a commercial success.^[5]