Doc Hollywood
| Movie | |
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| German title | Doc Hollywood |
| Original title | Doc Hollywood |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Michael Caton-Jones |
| script |
Laurian Leggett , Jeffrey Price , Daniel Pyne , Peter S. Seaman |
| production | Marc Merson |
| music | Carter Burwell |
| camera | Michael Chapman |
| cut | Priscilla Nedd-Friendly |
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Doc Hollywood is an American comedy film from the year 1991 . The director was Michael Caton-Jones , the writer wrote Laurian Leggett , Jeffrey Price , Daniel Pyne and Peter S. Seaman based on the novel What? ... Dead Again? by Neil B. Shulman . The leading roles were played by Michael J. Fox and Julie Warner .
action
The doctor Benjamin Stone leaves his job as a doctor in the emergency department in Washington, DC and is on the way to Beverly Hills in Los Angeles , where he became a job interview with a famous plastic surgeon should be completed. On the way he was in a car accident in the small town of Grady, South Carolina . He is sentenced to 32 hours of social work at the local hospital while his car is being repaired. Nicholson, the town's mayor , is vying for Stone with a welcoming committee and invitations, and wants to hire him at the hospital because the current doctor, Dr. Aurelius Hogue, should have long since retired.
Stone flirts with ambulance driver Vialula, a confident single mother to a four-year-old daughter. However, the local insurance agent Hank Gordon has hopes for Vialula. Stone is quickly integrated into small town life. From Dr. Hogue is initially dismissed as too young and inexperienced, but can then save his life in the event of a heart attack through courageous and correct action. Dr. Hogue reciprocates by secretly calling the famous surgeon . That Stone did not appear on the application deadline, explains Dr. Hogue with Stones allegedly urgent engagement at the local hospital.
The local judge releases Stone from the remainder of the sentence so that nothing stands in the way of his onward journey to Los Angeles. Stone and Vialula fall in love on the eve of their departure with an intimate dance at the pumpkin festival, and she invites him to take a boat trip. She even wants to surrender to him against her principles, but lets him know that she will not follow him to the big city. Stone does not want to take advantage of the situation, is confronted by the jealous Hank and secretly leaves the city late at night. After a short drive, still in the catchment area of the village, he is stopped by a villager whose heavily pregnant wife is lying in the car on the side of the road; the birth is imminent. After a moment's hesitation, he decides to help. While he is giving birth to the baby, his newly repaired car, which is parked on the side of the road, is overlooked by a sleep-drunk truck driver, rammed and destroyed again considerably.
Stone and Vialula meet again in the hospital the next day. She suppresses her feelings towards Stone and tells him that she wants to marry Hank Gordon. The mayor also gives up his efforts to make Stone the new village doctor attractive. The community collects for his plane ticket and Stone leaves the city by plane for Los Angeles.
Stone is hired by the cosmetic surgeon, but after a short time the work seems superfluous to him. He feels empty and lonely. It becomes clear that he misses the small town life and residents of Grady. A few weeks later, the daughter of the mayor of Grady, Nancy Lee Nicholson, who has also unsuccessfully advertised Stones to stay in Grady, brings the repaired car to Los Angeles together with Hank. Both want to stay there. Stone is visibly disappointed because he had secretly expected Vialula. However, he learns that Vialula and Hank did not become a couple after all. Stone drives back to Vialula in Grady and explains to her that he wants to stay with her and in Grady in the future. She accepts him after a rather mock resistance.
Reviews
The film received mostly positive reviews, earning a 74% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 31 reviews.
Lexicon of international film : A modern fairy tale built around a pale star that knows how to make little comedic capital out of the confrontation between city and country life.
prisma-online: Michael Caton-Jones ("Rob Roy", "This Boy's Life") shot this amusing comedy about American provincial life and its advantages. Even if the country life is pretty idyllic, the film can come up with really charming gags. Especially funny: Bridget Fonda as the mayor's dear daughter and Woody Harrelson as a great local dandy.
useful information
While filming, lead actor Michael J. Fox showed the first symptoms of Parkinson's disease . In 1998 he went public with it and ended his cinema career in 2000.
The film is based on the book What? Dead ... Again ?. by Neil B. Shulman . The animated film Cars , made in 2006, is also based on this book and therefore has large parts of the plot from Doc Hollywood to individual gags in common.
The idyllic place Grady was invented. The shooting took place in the small town of Micanopy , Florida.
Web links
- Doc Hollywood in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Doc Hollywood in the online movie database
- Doc Hollywood atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Doc Hollywood at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- ^ Doc Hollywood. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Doc Hollywood. Prisma-Online, accessed January 1, 2015 .