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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305133469
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305133468
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 07, 1998
Running Time: 104 minutes
Sales Rank: 5596
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: August 02, 1991
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Description:
A brash young medical resident is driving across the country to begin a career in Beverly Hills as a cosmetic surgeon to the stars. But an accident of fate strands him in a small southern town. There, his outlook on life - and love - gets a down-home twist that changes him forever.
Amazon.com:
At first glance, this 1991 comedy looks like another formulaic fluff-piece with a standard fish-out-of-water scenario--in this case a hotshot young doctor (Michael J. Fox) whose cross-country drive to become a Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon is interrupted when he crashes in the rural hamlet of Grady, South Carolina. But as Fox's character is urged by the folksy locals to stay--an offer made tempting by his romance with a law student (Julie Warner)--this unassuming little movie just gets better and better thanks to a sharp script and a splendid supporting cast. Well, okay ... maybe Woody Harrelson and Bridget Fonda aren't used to the fullest of their abilities, but for the most part this is a charming and surprisingly intelligent comedy that's good enough to compare favorably to My Cousin Vinny, a film with which it shares much in common. Fox has all the right moves to make his character both bullish and ultimately agreeable, and Julie Warner's performance may leave you wondering why this fine actress didn't immediately rise to stardom. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Forgotten fun.
Doc Hollywood starring Michael J. Fox is a really good romantic comedy, too bad it never became a cult classic. Julie Warner and Bridget Fonda also star. I like this quirky film, love to see Michael J. Fox at his best. I highly recommend this small-town adventure, enjoy!
Rating:  - Doc Hollywood's small town
Do you know the name of the charming town the movie was filmed in? In the movie, the town is named Grady, SC. However, the movie was actually filmed in Micanopy, FL, the oldest inland-town in Florida, and as much an old southern town as you will ever find anymore. Its houses on the main street are still like in the movie and in the beginning of last century. Big live oaks form canopies over the roads. An 1890 warehouse is home to the historical museum, where you can see displays of life in town over the centuries and the filming of Doc Hollywood. The charm of the movie depends in large part on this beautiful scenery, and it is still there to explore.Doc Hollywood
Rating: - Doc Hollywood
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Rating: - First Rate Movie, with Stellar Acting All Around
This is a gem of a movie, with Michael J Fox successfully pulling off a character that is full of contradiction -- arrogant, rude, humble, vulnerable, in command, embarrassed, cute, love struck, hurt, compassionate, abrasive, exposed, depressed, angry, and principled. Fox masterfully pulls off all of these conflicting characteristics in a believable way.
His facial expressions are subtly humorous and memorable, and five of the six sections of dialogue between him and Julie Warner alone are charming, witting and riveting.
Every one of the supporting cast members give equally stellar performances, and the reasons for the various types of conflict in the story are believable and heart warming.
I'm surprised Julie Warner's career didn't go further after this, and I would've loved to see other romantic comedies starring both Fox and Wagner together, as we've seen with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers etcetera. There appeared to be chemistry between them that sets the television on fire every time I watch it.
I bought this video after checking it out from the library, and I expect it to be one of these videos I turn to when I want to lose myself in the world these two create for us. And this in spite of the fact that I don't naturally gravitate to romantic comedies.
I have two criticisms of the movie -- one has to do with the lack of emotion that Warner sometimes shows during critical moments in ... Read More
Rating:  - Not Widescreen
This is not a jab at Amazon, as Doc Hollywood is NOT available from Warner Bros. in anything other than full-screen, but how any studio can continue to sell full-screen-ONLY DVDs is beyond me. It's unforgivable. I won't even go into the inconvenience of the Warner snap-cases. I mistakenly read the specs and bought (and returned) this movie. If you expect to keep your 4:3 SD television for the next 10 years, and don't mind that you're missing about 1/3 of the original shot, then here's the movie for you. I really enjoy this movie, but I will not buy a 4:3 movie that wasn't shot originally in this format. As of Feb. 2009, standard analog (and I hope most 4:3 content) will migrate to widescreen/HD TV. All movies should offer a widescreen option. This, in my opinion, is the only positive outcome of the Blu-ray/HD-DVD conflict... but that's another story.
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