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Doc Hollywood

Year:

1991

Duration:

104 min

Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

IMDB rate:

6.1

Director:

Michael Caton-Jones

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1991-08-02

Filming Locations: Santa Clarita, California, USA

Earnings

Opening Weekend: $7,251,854 (USA) (4 August 1991)

Gross: $54,830,779 (USA) Rentals $24,500,000 (USA)

Cast

Actor

Character

Cristi Conaway

Michael J. Fox

Dr. Benjamin Stone

Julie Warner

Vialula / 'Lou'

Barnard Hughes

Dr. Aurelius Hogue

Woody Harrelson

Hank Gordon

David Ogden Stiers

Mayor Nick Nicholson

Frances Sternhagen

Lillian, Welcoming Committee

George Hamilton

Doctor Halberstrom

Bridget Fonda

Nancy Lee Nicholson

Mel Winkler

Melvin the Mechanic

Helen Martin

Maddie, Welcoming Committee

Roberts Blossom

Judge Evans

Tom Lacy

Deputy Cotton

Macon McCalman

Aubrey Draper

Raye Birk

Simon Tidwell, First Patient

Eyde Byrde

Nurse Packer

William Cowart

Lane, Melvin's Helper

Amzie Strickland

Violet, Welcoming Committee

Time Winters

Kyle Owens

K.T. Vogt

Mary Owens

Jordan Lund

John Crawford

Robert Munns

Mortimer the Barber

Douglas Brush

McClary

Barry Sobel

Dr. Tommy Shulman

Amanda Junette Donatelli

Emma, Lou's Daughter

Billy Gillespie

Zeb's Father

Kathy Poling

Zeb's Mother

Eric Bechtel

Zeb

Kelly Jo Minter

Mulready

Michael Caton-Jones

L.A. Maitre D'

Michael Chapman

Shooting Gallery Operator

Ted Davis

L.A. Taxi Driver

Melanie MacQueen

Woman with Spider

Adele Malis-Morey

Woman with Glasses

Darrell Jay Cook

Huge Man

Dan Charles

Boy at Shooting Gallery

Kirsche Smith

Nurse

David Thompkins

Medic

Dan Bell

Patient

Karen Hartman-Golden

Loonie #1

Roxanne Benseman

Farm Lady

Kelly Roland Warren

Squash Queen (as Kelly Roland)

Janis Bjorkland

Girl with Spider

Daniel Cerny

Boy with Spider

Emily Lester

Housewife

Vincent J. Burns

Loonie #2 (as Vince Burns)

David H. 'Dutch' Van Dalsem

Man with Rash

David Dupre

Distressed Man

Martin Alan Johnson

Orderly

Ken Josefsberg

Doctor

Robert Enriquez

Indian Chief (uncredited)

Jack E. Herman

Hair Man (uncredited)

Dean Rubin

Young Doctor (uncredited)

Dan Charles Zukoski

Boy at Fair (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

While in the restaurant in LA, Nancy Lee asks Hank (Woody Harrelson), "Isn't that a star?" He replies, "No, that's Ted Danson." Danson was Harrelson's Cheers (1982) co-star.

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Michael J. Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1990 not long before the filming of this movie began, when he noticed a small but persistent tremor in his left pinky finger.

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The city Michael J. Fox is driving through in the opening credits is Richmond, VA.

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Goofs

When Doc Stone realizes he needs to get the pig back he goes to Melvin's garage and then the butchers, both of these scenes are set in the dark, but when he picks Lou up its twilight. Yet all this happens in the same day.

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In delivering the baby, Stone reverses a breech birth, yet the first appendage he grabs is a leg.

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In the beginning of film, during titles, Stone is driving and stops in traffic. He is wearing a dark brown jacket, but as he stands up to view traffic the jacket has disappeared.

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Quotes

Dr. Benjamin Stone: Listen,doctor,I've got a boy here in cardiac crisis.You can't treat that with Coca-Cola or Bisquick.We're gonna have to use real medicine this time.Now I'm sending him to Athens General.You're his regular fucking doctor,you get your fat ass out of bed,get down there and go with him.

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Nancy Lee Nicholson: Why don't ask me about Vialula?

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Dr. Benjamin Stone: You want to trade, the pig for the part?

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Faq

Is this movie based on a book?

Yes. The screenplay was based on the novel What? Dead...Again? by Neil B.Schulman, published in 1980.

Why did Ben think the sick boy had an heart problem?

The boy had an upset stomach from chewing tobacco. Before taking him to the surgery, his dad had given him some Bismuth subnitrate (Homegrown antacid) to try and settle his stomach, but he had given him too much, resulting in his face turning blue. Ben saw him looking ill, and couldn't properly detect an heart murmur, and wrongly assumed it was Mitral valve regurge because he was so used to seeing it in ER. Doc Hogue obviously knew the boy's history and knew that he just needed a can of coke to settle his stomach.

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