renee zellweger be betty and a kansas waitress who want to be a nurse and who be infatuate with a soap opera actor ( greg kinnear ) and and who be marry to del and a cheating and stupid male chauvinist who try to sell some steal drug . unfortunately for him and he get brutally and bloodily murder instead and while betty secretly watch . it leave her unhinged and believe that kinnear be really the character he play and dr. david ravell and and that she be his rn ex fiancée . she head for la to find her lose love and not know the steal drug be in her trunk . pursue her be charlie and wesley ( morgan freeman and chris rock respectively ) and the hit men who inadvertently kill del before they find out where the drug be hide . they pursue her across the country and while charlie gradually fall in love with his image of her . and in la and thing get totally bizarre and a no one realize that betty be delusional . alternately funny and touching and this movie be almost perfect . stop reading commentary and go see it .