Now Charlie thinks of her more as a person who would sympathize with his own broken ideals. When they started chasing her, she was an eyewitness to murder who was driving a car in which her husband had hidden their drugs. Charlie and Wesley meanwhile arrive in Los Angeles with Charlie increasingly bewitched by fancies about Betty. David Ravell" at a charity benefit, George and his friends think they're witnessing a brilliant Method audition. She relates only to the character, and as she talks to "Dr.
In Los Angeles, Betty meets George ( Greg Kinnear), the actor who plays the doctor. Under the influence of Betty's sweet smile in a photograph, he begins to idealize her-he speaks of her "grace"-and to see her as the bright angel of his lost hopes. Charlie and Wesley trail her, and in the course of their pursuit, Charlie's mind also jumps the track. Her husband was a rat, she doesn't miss him, and in her mind his death frees her to drive out to Los Angeles to meet her "ex-fiance," a doctor on a soap opera. Well, Charlie only kills him because Wesley scalps him-and then what are you gonna do? Betty witnesses the murder, but blanks it out of her memory.
Charlie and Wesley ( Chris Rock) turn up at his house, threaten him, scalp him and kill him. Their lives connect because Del ( Aaron Eckhart), Betty's worthless husband, tries to stiff Charlie on a drug deal. Morgan Freeman is Charlie, the killer, and Renee Zellweger is Betty, the housewife and waitress. What is crucial is that both of these besotted romantics are invisible to the person they are in love with. The criminal is in love with the housewife, whose husband he has killed. The housewife is in love with a doctor on a television soap opera. Neil LaBute's "Nurse Betty" is about two dreamers in love with their fantasies.