During the course of Nurse Betty, title character Betty Sizemore (Renée Zellweger), who hails from Kansas, is once referred to as "Dorothy." This is an entirely appropriate connection, since director Neil LaBute's third feature (in the wake of In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors) is a modern-day fairy tale about a woman who goes on an improbable, fantastic journey, and finds herself at the end of the yellow brick road. But, because LaBute is far from a conventional filmmaker, Nurse Betty is less like a trip through Oz and more like a view of Alice's Wonderland, but through a glass darkly.