Product: Doc Hollywood [VHS] (1991)
Rating: 3.0
A Romantic Charmer.
The viewer would be hard pressed not to like this sweet romantic charmer. This was Fox's last movie, in a string of innocent romantic romps, that carried him through the Eighties. There is no new ground covered here, but the love that developes between Fox's character and Julie Warner's character really gives the movie its momentum.Fox plays Benjamin Stone, a young doctor bound for plastic surgery wealth in Beverly Hills, when he gets into a car accident in the fictional town of Grady South Carolina. While he fulfills his community service sentence due to the accident, he meets all of the stereotypical inhabitants of small town America, ala The Andy Griffith Show. The supporting cast is well chosen and full of recognizable faces. In the end, Fox's character must choose between Beverly Hills or Grady, with the answer being quite predictable.While the script makes no pretense of challenging the viewer, I could not stop myself from being taken in by Fox and Warner's characters. It also probably explains the popularity of vapid sitcoms, the actors can make or break a movie, and Doc Hollywood is full of quality actors.