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Doc Hollywood

4.8

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Original title

Doc Hollywood

Year

1991

Running time

110 min.

Country

United States

Director

Michael Caton-Jones

Screenwriter

Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman, Daniel Pyne

Cast

Music

Carter Burwell

Cinematography

Michael Chapman

Producer

Warner Bros.

Genre

Romance. Comedy | Romantic Comedy. Medical. Small Town Life (North-american)

Synopsis

Zooming to the fast money and easy life as a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, a young doctor is detoured when he accidently chases his Porsche into a fence. The judge, not taking the destruction of his property lightly, forces the doctor to community service as the town doctor. In spite of himself, the small town and its eccentric inhabitants start to grow on the doctor.

Critics' reviews

"I was expecting Doc Hollywood to be a comedy. And it is a comedy. But it surprised me by also being a love story, and a pretty good one"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"Has no real taste of its own, but, in its mildness and predictability, offers the reassurance of a fast-food"

Variety Staff: Variety
"Despite the fact that Doc Hollywood isn't exactly brimful of surprises, it's awfully easy to take because it seems a throwback to the kind of formula movies studios used to grind out by the bushel in the '30s and '40s"

Jay Carr: Boston Globe
"'Doc Hollywood' draws its energy almost exclusively from cliche. The cornball rowdiness is partially redeemed by the good cast"

Peter Rainer: Los Angeles Times
"Director Caton-Jones has given the film a few moments of charm and gentleness, though the movie would be a lot more beguiling if it weren't so sure of itself."

Dave Kehr: Chicago Tribune
"While this combination of Michael J. Fox, light comedy and uncomplicated values mustve looked fine on paper, on screen it doesn't quite make the grade"

Lloyd Bradley: Empire
"It's too flat to be funny and too trite to be meaningful"

Desson Thomson: The Washington Post

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User history

Doc Hollywood

1991

Michael Caton-Jones

4.8

(3,445)