Doc Hollywood (1991)

Sadly Over-hyped

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Dr. Hollywood is a great manners comedy,well structured and often funny,but predicable,the characters are colorful and weirds,to star the Mayor a stunning performance,the nurse Parker fantastic biting an old time clock when Doc arrives or leaves the hospital,the pig received as gift from a cured and grateful patient. Anyway the movie sailing in easy waters,how l grow up in this kind of little town l can say all about,enjoyable movie which Michael J. Fox made one the best and fancy performance ever!!!Resume:First watch: 1993 / How many: 3 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 7.5

Star-vehicle for Michael J. Fox is a curiously flat comedy straight off the assembly-line. While on his way to California to practice plastic surgery on the Hollywood stars, a doctor gets stuck in a backwater town and quickly becomes smitten with the uneducated yokels residing there--hicks deemed lovable by virtue of their unspoiled lives. Another ridiculous attempt to sentimentalize the rural, homespun way of life by pitting it against the dirty and corrupt Big City. Three screenwriters, Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman and Daniel Pyne (working from Laurian Leggett's adaptation of Neil B. Shulman's book "What?...Dead Again?"), deliver us a valentine to Hicktown, USA. Fox, looking bloated and sleepy, struggles valiantly through it; supporting players Woody Harrelson and Frances Sternhagen manage to give the stereotypical humor a little juice.

Although the film was made in 1991, it has that 80s feel. It is a classical 80s plot about a big city guy finding himself by accident in a small town. As he gets to know the locals, the initial conflicts are overcome and he gradually falls in love with the place, and of course a local girl as well. In this particular film the hero is a would-be plastic surgeon somewhere in Los Angeles. He cares only about money and he is cynical about his job. By the end he realises he'd be much happier being a simple doctor in a small town, surrounded by people he knows intimately and cares about. Back then they had to make the hero a plastic surgeon, but if they made the film today, it could be almost anybody, because big city life is a complete nightmare. We have lost so much of our humanity and we have become so cynical and manipulated that I sometimes wish I could spend just one day in a small town like that. Let's face it: we are morally and culturally bankrupt and we better rediscover what makes us good human beings soon.The film has some minor flaws, which is why I give it nine stars and not ten. It's a lovely film and as I watched it again after all these years it made me remember a time when we were all happier and generally better human beings.

This film is so so addictive. It draws you in from the first 5 mins and then keeps you going and yet it is such a simple storyline. A must for all film lovers and a great watch. I recommend it watched at least twice :). Make sure you are sat back and ready for a laid back film as it is slow paced and just a generally nice film to watch. Something to chill with, with the missus or even on your own. A good end to a hectic day or even used as a pick me up film. The film is not complex to watch so is ideal for a bottle of wine (or two ;)) to watch with. However it is not one that I would recommend to own or watch again and again. Just a once in a blue moon film but still when watch a great watch :P.