Doc Hollywood

1991 • 103 minutes
4.5
141 reviews
69%
Tomatometer
PG-13
Rating
Eligible
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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.
Rating
PG-13

Ratings and reviews

4.5
141 reviews
wagner productions inc.
August 1, 2020
Doc Hollywood is a movie you want to sit through over and over again! A delightful film, a delightful cast and one of the best romances ever written in cinema a 5/5 and thumbs up!
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A Google user
November 18, 2015
This is a silly film with an amazing cast (David Ogden Stiers is priceless) and maybe even a lesson to be learned.
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Stewart Goldberg
February 13, 2014
Great movie, never a dull moment. Kind of movie those of us that watch a movie over and over can do !
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