Nurse Betty
Dir: Neil LaBute 
2000
**
Pop psychology is never a good place to start a film but as stupid as it is, I still quite liked the idea of nurse Betty's post-traumatic TV soap obsession. Renée Zellweger plays endearing quite well, so her character it is safe to say was good enough to carry the film. It is all the other characters that ruin it. The great Crispin Glover is given a terrible role that was beneath him, Aaron Eckhart was miscast and Chris Rock and Morgan Freeman's characters had major continuity issues. The conclusion to what started as quite a fun and original story was such an anticlimax it felt like the writers just ran out of time. What was the reason for Charlie's obsession with Betty? How did Ballard find Betty? Why did Roy Ostery come with Ballard? How did Betty rent a flat and get a job with no ID? So much of the story made no sense at all, the fact it won Best Screenplay at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival is a complete mystery to me.