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Writers (WGA):
Neil B. Shulman (book)
Laurian Leggett (adaptation)
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Release Date:
2 August 1991 (USA) more
Tagline:
He's a big city plastic surgeon...in a small town that doen't take plastic.
Plot:
A young doctor causes a traffic accident in a small town and is sentenced to work for some days at the town hospital. full summary | add synopsis
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a gem of a movie more (51 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Michael J. Fox | ... | Dr. Benjamin Stone |
 | Julie Warner | ... | Vialula / 'Lou' |
 | Barnard Hughes | ... | Dr. Aurelius Hogue |
 | Woody Harrelson | ... | Hank Gordon |
 | David Ogden Stiers | ... | Mayor Nick Nicholson |
| Frances Sternhagen | ... | Lillian, Welcoming Committee |
 | George Hamilton | ... | Doctor Halberstrom |
 | Bridget Fonda | ... | Nancy Lee Nicholson |
| Mel Winkler | ... | Melvin the Mechanic |
| Helen Martin | ... | Maddie, Welcoming Committee |
| Roberts Blossom | ... | Judge Evans |
| Tom Lacy | ... | Deputy Cotton |
 | Macon McCalman | ... | Aubrey Draper |
| Raye Birk | ... | Simon Tidwell, First Patient |
| Eyde Byrde | ... | Nurse Packer |
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104 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Certification:
Singapore:NC-16 | Iceland:L | South Korea:15 | New Zealand:PG | Finland:S | Germany:12 | Italy:T | Spain:T | Sweden:Btl | UK:12 (original rating) | UK:15 (video rating) (1992) | USA:PG-13
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The writer, Neil B. Shulman, worked at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, hence the name of the town, Grady. more
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Continuity: When Ben and Lou are slow dancing the white ribbon in Lou's hair gets longer at the end of the dance. more
Quotes:
Vialula: [about the gossip in Grady] Can't poop in this town without everybody knowin' what color it is. more
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Featured in 1992 MTV Movie Awards (1992) (TV) more
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THE ONE AND ONLY more
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I didn't like Doc Hollywood the first time I saw it in 1991 --- then I watched it again a few years ago and was blown away by the writing, acting and all-around sweet nature of the film.
Dr. Ben Stone is leaving DC for a job doing plastic surgery for celebs in LA when he runs into a picket fence in a small Southern town and has to do 3 days of community service at their clinic as penance. His fancy sports car is totaled anyway and he has to get it fixed. Miffed at being waylaid in such a hokey place, he tries to get through the next few days in time for his new job.
He meets a wide cast of characters -- and to their credit, not everyone in a small town is so gosh-friendly. Some are mean, some are troubled, some are nice -- like any other array of people. Ben meets Lou, a single mother who drives the ambulance, as well as Nancy Lee Nicholson, a confused beauty who wants him to take her to LA.
This movie is great because it is about many people deciding for themselves how they want to live -- whether in a big city or in a small town -- and why they value what they do. It is also about an epiphany for Ben Stone and changing of his ways internally.