Renee Zellweger can do wonders with hers. She crooks it to one side when she's happy or confused, and tenses it up when she's anxious. In the new film Nurse Betty she and her neck give one of the very best performances of the year 2000. Zellweger, with her cuddly, puffy, sweetness is the only actress around who could have played this role. Most other actresses are either too aerobicized and chiseled or too hip and ironic.
Sweetness seems to be in short supply.
Thankfully, Zellweger not only has it, but talent and skill as well. I focus on Zellweger so much because most of Nurse Betty is carried by her. But, as written by John C. Richards and James Flamberg, and directed by Neil LaBute, the rest movie is nothing to sneeze at either. Nurse Betty does contain some of those same observances, but it's packaged in a more lightweight romantic comedy. This is LaBute's first time out not writing his own screenplay, though he must have recognized some of his own tendencies in Nurse Betty , which won the Best Screenplay award at Cannes.