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Title: Doc Hollywood (1991)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Michael J. Fox | ... | Ben Stone | |
| Julie Warner | ... | Lou | |
| Barnard Hughes | ... | Dr. Hogue | |
| Woody Harrelson | ... | Hank | |
| David Ogden Stiers | ... | Nick Nicholson | |
| Frances Sternhagen | ... | Lillian | |
| George Hamilton | ... | Dr. Halberstrom | |
| Bridget Fonda | ... | Nancy Lee | |
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Mel Winkler | ... | Melvin |
| Helen Martin | ... | Maddie | |
| Roberts Blossom | ... | Judge Evans | |
| Tom Lacy | ... | Cotton | |
| Macon McCalman | ... | Aubrey Draper | |
| Raye Birk | ... | Simon Tidwell | |
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Eyde Byrde | ... | Nurse Packer |
Benjamin Stone is a young doctor driving to L.A., where he is interviewing for a high-paying job as a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills. He gets off the highway to avoid a traffic jam, but gets lost and ends up crashing into a fence in the small town of Grady. He is sentenced to 32 hours of community service at the local hospital. All he wants is to serve the sentence, get his car fixed and get moving, but gradually the locals become attached to the new doctor, and he falls for the pretty ambulance driver, Lou. Will he leave? Written by Sami Al-Taher <staher2000@yahoo.com>
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.