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Benjamin Stone is a young doctor driving to L.A where he was offered a new job as a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills. He gets off the highway to avoid a traffic jam, but gets lost and ends up crashing into a fence in the small town of Grady. He is sentenced to 32 hrs of community service at the local hospital. All he wants is to serve the sentence and get moving, but gradually the locals become attached to the new doctor, and he falls for the pretty ambulance driver, Lou. Will he leave?
DOC HOLLYWOOD is a down-home romantic comedy about a big-city plastic surgeon who finds real roots and true love in a small town.
A big city doctor is stranded in a small rural town, where he finds love, professional challenges, and a pet pig, in this comedy. Fresh out of residence at a Washington D.C. hospital, hot-shot plastic surgeon Ben Stone (Michael J. Fox) hops in his Porsche and is headed for California, where a lucrative practice in Beverly Hills awaits. However, Ben accidentally plows into a fence in Grady, South Carolina; the wreck puts Ben's car out of commission, and the town's mayor, Nick Nicholson (David Ogden Stiers), sees to it that Ben is sentenced to perform community service while he's waiting to get his car back on the ...
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road. For a week, Ben will serve as the community's general practitioner, filling in for the aging Dr. Hogue (Barnard Hughes). Many of the locals go out of their way to make Ben feel welcome, since they need a new full-time doctor and hope he'd be interested in staying on a permanent basis. Ben isn't especially interested until he meets Lou (Julie Warner), a beautiful, intelligent, and feisty local woman he first meets as she's enjoying a morning skinny-dip. Ben now finds himself wondering what the odds are of winning her away from her less-than-brilliant boyfriend Hank (Woody Harrelson). Bridget Fonda has a memorable supporting role as Nancy Lee, who doesn't make much of a secret of her attraction to Ben.
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Dr. Benjamin Stone is een jonge dokter die op weg is naar L.A. om plastisch chirurg te worden in Beverly Hills. Om uit de file te blijven verlaat hij de snelweg, maar hij raakt de weg kwijt en ramt met zijn auto tegen een hek in het dorpje Grady. Hij krijgt een taakstraf in het lokale ziekenhuis, en hij wil zo snel mogelijk uit het dorp, weg van de hillbillies. Maar de inwoners mogen hem graag, en willen dat hij hun huisarts wordt. En hijzelf wordt verliefd op de mooie Lou.
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