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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 waitress who suffers a nervous breakdown after witnessing her husband's torture murder, and starts obsessively pursuing her favorite television soap opera character, while in a fugue state. Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock play the hitmen who killed her husband and…
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Black comedy is often the riskiest of all comedies, because it requires good balance between darkness and humour, which is a skill that few authors can master it. Even playwrights and film makers who made their name with black comedies can at times miss that balance. Neil LaBute did it with his 2000 film *Nurse Betty*. The protagonist, played by Renée Zellweger, is Betty Sizemore, waitress from Kansas City whose lif…More
