Product: Doc Hollywood [VHS] (1991)
Rating: 5.0
Tear jerking
In the hands of joel schumacher and the acting lead of Adam Sandler, this romantic comedy would have been dumbed down to the level of a third grader and the nudity would have reached gratuitous proportions, but Michael J. Fox does a convincing job playing an upity young doctor who discovers that dreams take unexpected turns---sometimes for the better.En route to Beverly Hills for his dream job, Benjamin Stone (Fox) gets punnished with community service after wrecking a farmer/judge's fence with his car. Fox carries out his sentence while his car is being fixed by two mechanics who act as if they have never seen anything other than a model T and hillarity ensues as city and country folk learn they have a lot more in commmon than previously thought.Belieing the stereotypes of southern women, The ambulance driver Lou, is a feisty animal rights activist and single parent who is well-read. The romantic tension and chemistry between her and Fox is convincing.