Doc Hollywood (1991) Doc Hollywood (1991)
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| Director | Michael Caton-Jones |
| Writers | Daniel Pyne, Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman; based on the novel What? . . . Dead Again? by Neil B. Shulman, M.D. |
| Cast | Michael J. Fox (Dr. Benjamin Stone), Julie Warner (Vialula "Lou"), Woody Harrelson (Hank Gordon), Bridget Fonda (Nancy Lee Nicholson), Barnard Hughes (Dr. Aurelius Hogue), David Ogden Stiers (Mayor Nick Nicholson), Frances Sternhagen (Lillian), Eyde Byrde (Maddie), George Hamilton (Dr. Halberstrom) |
| Runtime | 103 minutes |
| Budget | ~$20 million |
| Box Office | ~$54.8 million worldwide |
| Release Date | August 2, 1991 |
| MPAA | PG-13 |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. |
Overview
Doc Hollywood is Michael Caton-Jones's 1991 fish-out-of-water romantic comedy starring Michael J. Fox as Dr. Benjamin Stone, a hot-shot young surgeon driving his '56 Porsche from a New York emergency-room residency to a lucrative plastic-surgery partnership at the Halberstrom Clinic in Beverly Hills. Detouring off the interstate, Stone crashes through a hand-built fence in Grady, South Carolina (the self-styled "Squash Capital of the South") and is sentenced by the local judge to thirty-two hours of community service as the town's resident doctor. What he expects to be a brief detention becomes a slow conversion: he saves the life of the aging town doctor Aurelius Hogue, falls for ambulance driver and law student Vialula "Lou," delivers a breech baby alone on a kitchen floor, and ultimately has to choose between the Halberstrom partnership and the place that has, without his noticing, claimed him. Roger Ebert gave it 3.5 stars; the film's plot is widely cited as the structural template for Pixar's Cars (2006).