Powerful

Load of rubbish!!

Great Film overall

Absolutely Fantastic

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

I remember seeing this in the theaters with my parents and a friend when I was little. Boy, do I remember! I was 6 years old (1991-1985=6) apparently, but I'll never forget that moment when I first noticed a totally naked Julie Warner on the massive movie screen. My parents obviously didn't want me to see an R-rated flick so they took us to see Doc Hollywood, only PG-13, may be a little risque but surely nothing too bad. Well, it was a lot risque, and it was surely something too good! At 6, I certainly was not expecting it when Julie Warner busted out of the lake totally naked and started walking right towards Michael J. Fox, at which point in the movie theater I definitely let out a huge gawking sound, like, 'UGGHH', that I think the whole theater heard. I think I was trying to breathe, but Julie Warner just wasn't letting that happen. She then chats up MJF totally wet and totally bare chested for like 30 seconds. 'You can blink now.' Thank you, Julie. What I remember after the movie was over, is as we were all walking out to the parking lot, my parents were asking us about what our favorite part was and my dad made a joke about how he thinks the entire theater already knows my favorite part. Funny guy, he was right, and it still is.

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.

I'm one of the biggest Michael J.Fox fans there is, but for some reason I always hated this movie as a kid. Probably because it's a leisurely paced comedy filled with quirky characters. However, having viewed it again recently, the very reasons I may have disliked it in the past, are the reasons why I rate is so highly now.Fox is firing on all cylinders as Dr.Ben Stone,who finds himself stranded in a rural town, and gradually transforms from a money obsessed egotist, to a more down to earth nice guy, who realises the things that really matter in life.Julie Warner gives a believable performance as the attractive ambulance driver Lou,who quickly catches Fox's eye in what could very well be the sexiest entrance in a romantic film.The film is Fox's vehicle and is carried by him, but it's to Warner's credit that the scenes between them are evenly matched and she gives a lot more personality to a role which could have easily just been a one dimensional love interest.The dialogue and chemistry between the two of them never seems forced.Of course, like all of these types of films, it's obvious from the start, that the guy will get the girl in the end, but it makes no difference because unlike many similar movies,the relationship seems natural and, to the film's credit, there are a few non-contrived obstacles before the "happy ever after" moment.All in all, I'm glad I saw the film again recently because I found it to be an highly enjoyable, unpretentious ROM-com (how many ROM-Com's show the two leads urinating all over the forest)that delivers a fine set of quirky characters and humorous situations.