Doc Hollywood

Doc Hollywood is an American comedy film from the year 1991. Was directed by Michael Caton- Jones, the screenplay is by Laurian Leggett, Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman Daniel Pyne and based on the novel What? ... Dead Again? by Neil B. Shulman. The film starred Michael J. Fox and Julie Warner.

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The doctor Benjamin Stone leaves his job as a doctor in the emergency room in Washington, DC and is on her way to Beverly Hills in Los Angeles, where he is to attend a job interview with a famous plastic surgeon. On the way he inflicted in the small town of Grady, South Carolina in a car accident. He is sentenced to 32 hours of community service, which he is expected to work at the local hospital, while his car is being repaired. Nicholson, the mayor of the town, vying with reception committee and invitations to Stone and wants to hire him in the hospital, as the now active physician Dr. Aurelius Hogue, really should be retired long ago.

Stone flirts with the ambulance driver Vialula, a confident single mother of a four year old daughter. However, even the local insurance agent Hank Gordon makes hopes for Vialula. Stone is quickly integrated into the small town life. By Dr. Hogue he is initially dismissed as too young and inexperienced, but then it can save your life during a heart attack by courageous and right action. Dr. Hogue reciprocates by secretly calling the famous surgeon. The fact that Stone had not appeared the application date, explains Dr. Hogue with Stones allegedly much a necessary commitment at the local hospital.

The local judge shall, Stone the remainder of the sentence so that its onward journey to Los Angeles nothing stands in the way. Stone and Vialula fall in love on the eve of departure, with an intimate dance at the Pumpkin Festival, they still invites him to a boat trip. She wants to even indulge him against their principles, lets them know that they will not follow him to the big city but him. However, Stone does not want to exploit the situation and is provided even to talk of jealous Hank and leave the city secretly at night late. After a short drive, even in the catchment area of the town, he is stopped by a villager whose very pregnant wife is in the car on the roadside; the birth is imminent. After some hesitation, he decides to help himself. While he brings the baby to the world, will be just repaired car that parked on the street, overlooked by a sleepy truck driver who rammed while again substantially destroyed.

Stone and Vialula meet again the next day together in the hospital. They suppressed their feelings tedious to Stone and tells him to want to marry Hank Gordon. The mayor gives up his efforts to make Stone the place of the new village doctor tasty. The community gathers for his plane ticket and Stone leaves the city by plane to Los Angeles.

Stone is set in the cosmetic surgeons, but the work after a short time it is unnecessary before. He feels empty and lonely. It is clear that he misses the small-town life and the inhabitants of Grady. A few weeks later brings him the daughter of the mayor of Grady, Nancy Lee Nicholson, who has also campaigned unsuccessfully for and Stone in Grady, together with Hank the repaired car to Los Angeles. Both want to stay there. Stone is visibly disappointed, because secretly he had Vialula expected. He learns, however, that Vialula and Hank but no pair were. Stone goes to Grady back to Vialula and tells her that he wants to stay with her and Grady future. She takes him in after a rather played resistance.

Reviews

Encyclopedia of the International film: To a pale star built around modern fairy tale that knows how to beat the confrontation between urban and rural life little comedic capital.

Prisma -online: Michael Caton- Jones ( " Rob Roy ," " This Boy 's Life" ) turned this amusing comedy about the American provincial life and its advantages. Although the country has got plenty of idyllic life, the film can come up with really charming gags. Especially funny: Bridget Fonda as a lovesick daughter of the mayor and Woody Harrelson as a great local dandy.

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During the filming were found in lead actor Michael J. Fox, the first symptoms of his Parkinson 's disease. In 1998, he went with it to the public and ended his movie career in 2000.

2006 was the animated movie Cars, the wide parts of the plot of Doc Hollywood to individual gags took over.

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