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Doc Hollywood
1991
A doctor from a Washington hospital is off to the West Coast and a life of cosmetic surgery. But on the way he is forced to stop in Grady, South Carolina, a town without a doctor. The job becomes more appealing after a meeting with the town's ambulance driver. Read more
| Starring | Michael J. Fox, Julie Warner, Woody Harrelson, Bridget Fonda |
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| Director | Michael Caton-Jones |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Doc Hollywood
A doctor from a Washington hospital is off to the West Coast and a life of cosmetic surgery. But on the way he is forced to stop in Grady, South Carolina, a town without a doctor. The job becomes more appealing after a meeting with the town's ambulance driver.
| Starring | Michael J. Fox, Julie Warner, Woody Harrelson, Bridget Fonda, David Ogden Stiers, Barnard Hughes, Frances Sternhagen |
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| Director | Michael Caton-Jones |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 39 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | English |
| Subtitles | English, Italian |
| Released | DVD: 20 Mar 2006 Production year: 1991 |
| Format | DVD |
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In this mildly diverting, folksy comedy, Michael J Fox plays an ambitious California-bound intern who finds himself press-ganged into becoming a doctor in a small South Carolina community. Revelling in local idiosyncrasies, director Michael Caton-Jones gives the film a lovely golden glow and produces a Capra-like hymn to the small town as Fox's dreams of becoming a rich cosmetic surgeon are put on hold. It's insubstantial, but corny fun all the same, and Fox is as charming as ever. The talented supporting cast includes Woody Harrelson, Bridget Fonda and David Odgen Stiers; look out, too, for a neat cameo from George Hamilton near the end.
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Washington intern Ben Stone (Fox at his frenetic best) nurses hopes of fun, sun, bimbos and bucks from cosmetic surgery... read more on Time Out
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
TOP MOVIE !!!
A big city doctor is stranded in a small rural town, where he finds love, professional challenges, and a pet pig, in this comedy. Fresh out of residence at a Washington D.C. hospital, hot-shot plastic surgeon Ben Stone (Michael J. Fox) hops in his Porsche and is headed for California, where a lucrative practice in Beverly Hills awaits. However, Ben accidentally plows into a fence in Grady, South Carolina; the wreck puts Ben's car out of commission, and the town's mayor, Nick Nicholson (David Ogden Stiers), sees to it that Ben is sentenced to perform community service while he's waiting to get his car back on the road. For a week, Ben will serve as the community's general practitioner, filling in for the aging Dr. Hogue (Barnard Hughes). Many of the locals go out of their way to make Ben feel welcome, since they need a new full-time doctor and hope he'd be interested in staying on a permanent basis. Ben isn't especially interested until he meets Lou (Julie Warner), a beautiful, intelligent, and feisty local woman he first meets as she's enjoying a morning skinny-dip. Ben now finds himself wondering what the odds are of winning her away from her less-than-brilliant boyfriend Hank (Woody Harrelson). Bridget Fonda has a memorable supporting role as Nancy Lee, who doesn't make much of a secret of her attraction to Ben.
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
rom-com, with a pig and a squash
micheal j fox a not so well liked doctor on his way to a job interview in hollywood. wreckes his porsch for just long enough to fall for 'loo' julie warner. also features 'bridget Fonda','woody Haroldson' and 'David Stiers' thats the tall bald one out of MASH.worth a look if thiers 'nawt on't box'
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A doctor from a Washington hospital is off to the West Coast and a life of cosmetic surgery. But on the way he is forced to stop in Grady, South Carolina, a town without a doctor. The job becomes ... -