Doc Hollywood

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Doc Hollywood ★★½ 1991 (PG-13)

A hotshot young physician on his way to a lucrative California practice gets stranded in a small Southern town. Will the wacky woodsy inhabitants persuade the city doctor to stay? There aren't many surprises in this fish-out-of-water comedy, but the cast injects it with considerable charm. Adapted from Neil B. Shulman's book “What?…Dead Again?” 104m/C VHS, DVD . Michael J. Fox, Julie Warner, Woody Harrel-son, Barnard Hughes, David Ogden Stiers, Frances Sternhagen, Bridget Fonda, George Hamilton, Roberts Blossom, Helen Martin, Macon McCalman, Barry Sobel; D: Michael Caton-Jones; W: Daniel Pyne, Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman; C: Michael Chapman; M: Carter Burwell.

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