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Betty retreats - like most of America it seems - into the
world of a medical soapie called A Reason to Love,
which stars the spunky Doctor David Ravell (Greg Kinnear).
A lovely person, Betty coasts along harbouring dreams of
one day becoming a nurse and when the shitful hubby is visited
by two hired killers she suffers goes into post-traumatic
shock and mentally retreats into thinking the soapie is real.
In that state she hops in a car and heads to LA to be with
her doc.
I have to say that the scene where Del meets his maker in
a particularly hair-raising way at the hands of Charley (Morgan
Freeman) and Wesley (Chris Rock) is both savagely funny and
stomach churning.
Discovering Betty was a witness, the pair set off after her
in a cross-America hunt and leave a trail of both delicately,
and indelicately, questioned people.
In LA, Betty has miraculously landed a job in a hospital
and comes in contact with a girl who takes her under her wing.
What follows is a series of potentially pathetic moments that
the cast lifts to a really classy level.
As said before, Zellweger is excellent and if you don't find
yourself hoping all will end up well for her you just don't
have a soul.
Freeman is simply fantastic as the intelligent, philosophical
killer doing his one last job before retirement. He is one
of the best actors - if not THE best actor - going around
today.
Comedian Chris Rock is his off-sider and while seemingly
a bit too high-pitched to be scary, he plays the role of the
almost-psychopath very well. It's his over the top murder
statements that give Nurse Betty such menace and black
humour.
Greg Kinnear plays the dreamboat doc perfectly and his switching
between soap role and on-screen actor is done very naturally.
This is a really enjoyable movie that benefits from an excellent
transfer and some good extras.
Conclusion: Movie 85%, Extras 85%
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