Synopsis
What happens when a person decides that life is merely a state of mind? If you're Betty, a small-town waitress and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kansas, you refuse to believe that you can't be with the love of your life just because he doesn't really exist. After all, life is no excuse for not living. Traumatized by a savage event, Betty enters into a fugue state that allows -- even encourages -- her to keep functioning... in a kind of alternate reality.
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Cast
- Morgan FreemanCharlie
- Renée ZellwegerBetty
- Chris RockWesley
- Greg KinnearDr. David Ravell
- Aaron EckhartDel
- Tia TexadaRosa
- Crispin GloverRoy
- Pruitt Taylor VinceBallard
- Allison JanneyLyla
- Kathleen WilhoiteSue Ann
Recommendations
- 100
Entertainment Weekly
The superb screenplay won an award at Cannes this year for good reason. - 100
San Francisco Chronicle
A wonderfully twisted comedy. - 91
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
He (LaBute) pulls the farce and the violence and the fantasies together with a deft touch and a sweetness rare in American films -- especially his. - 90
The New York Times
It is easily the finest American comedy since David O. Russell's "Flirting With Disaster," another road movie that never ran out of poignantly funny surprises. - 88
Charlotte Observer
Betty moves into Coen Brothers territory, a land so unreal that horrific behavior wrings laughter from a disbelieving audience. - 83
Portland Oregonian
It's a nicely tart gulp of grown-up wit and cynicism -- with, for a change, a cherry on top. - 75
New York Post
This oddly cheerful, decreasingly dark comedy actually works and can boast some of the most enjoyable performances of the year. - 75
New York Daily News
A black comedy that features Renee Zellweger as the most adorable psychiatric-trauma victim ever.
