Neil LaBute's screwy comedy "Nurse Betty" is a daffy trip through the comical world of post-traumatic stress disorder and
unhealthy obsessions, with some surprising depth to it. It's also very funny, though not nearly as much or as often as you'd hope. Betty Sizemore (Renee Zellweger), a Kansas diner waitress, is hooked on the soap opera "A Reason to Love," mainly because it helps her escape her loveless marriage with Mullett-haired used-car salesman Del (Aaron Eckhart). She's so caught up in this soap opera, in fact, that when she sees Del get killed by a couple of thugs he double-crossed (Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock, making a surprisingly good comedy team, considering the dignity of the former and the crassness of the latter), she wigs out and heads out to L.A. to meet Dr. David Ravell (Greg Kinnear) -- not the actor who plays him, but the actual character, whom she now believes to be real and to whom she thinks she was once engaged. She finds him -- well, George McCord, the actor -- at a party and soon he and his soap opera industry friends think she's a really dedicated actress who's trying to get a role on the show, and that all this talk about their "history" together is improv.
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