Doc Hollywood

Doc Hollywood is a 1991 comedy film based on the book, What? Dead again?, by Dr. Neil Shulman. The film starred Michael J. Fox, Julie Warner, Woody Harrelson and Bridget Fonda. Dr. Benjamin Stone (Michael J. Fox) is a hotshot young doctor who longs to leave the drudgery of the emergency room and finally leaps at his chance at more money and less work on the West Coast. On his last day, Ben's relationship with his co-workers is presumed to be anyt... more

Doc Hollywood is a 1991 comedy film based on the book, What? Dead again?, by Dr. Neil Shulman. The film starred Michael J. Fox, Julie Warner, Woody Harrelson and Bridget Fonda. Dr. Benjamin Stone (Michael J. Fox) is a hotshot young doctor who longs to leave the drudgery of the emergency room and finally leaps at his chance at more money and less work on the West Coast. On his last day, Ben's relationship with his co-workers is presumed to be anything but a warm one, as none of his colleagues will join him for a drink afterwards, and a celebratory cake in his honor has an iced portion of the phrase "Good riddance, asshole" sliced out of it. Ben's cross-country drive in his 1956 Porsche 356 Speedster to become a Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon is interrupted when he crashes in the rural hamlet of Grady, South Carolina. Unfortunately for Ben, he crashes through the fence of the local judge Evans (Roberts Blossom), who penalises him to community service at the local hospital. Though Ben... less