American Romantic Comedy

Doc Hollywood is a 1991 American Romantic Comedy film directed by Michael Caton-Jones and based on Neil B. Shulman's novel

a 1991 American romantic comedy film directed by Michael Caton-Jones and written by Daniel Pyne along with Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman, based on Neil B. Shulman's book, What

Doc Hollywood is a 1991 American romantic comedy film directed by Michael Caton-Jones and written by Daniel Pyne along with Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman, based on Neil B. Shulman's book, What?

comedy

The venerable “fish out of water” plotline is handily employed in Doc Hollywood, a lightweight comedy that proved to be a modest box office hit back in the summer of ‘91.

a lighthearted romantic comedy with more up a lighthearted romantic comedy's sleeve than a lighthearted romantic comedy's initial premise

Directed by Michael Caton-Jones, who also helmed Memphis Belle the year before and Rob Roy not long after, Doc Hollywood is a lighthearted romantic comedy with more up a lighthearted romantic comedy's sleeve than a lighthearted romantic comedy's initial premise.

a 1991 American romantic comedy film about a young doctor on Doc Hollywood's way to Beverly Hills who causes an accident in a village in South Carolina

Doc Hollywood is a 1991 American romantic comedy film about a young doctor on Doc Hollywood's way to Beverly Hills who causes an accident in a village in South Carolina, whereupon Doc Hollywood is sentenced to community service at the town hospital.

a 1991 romantic comedy film directed by Michael Caton-Jones

Doc Hollywood is a 1991 romantic comedy film directed by Michael Caton-Jones, and written by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman, based on Neil B. Shulman's book, What?

a lighthearted romantic comedy with more up more up its sleeve's sleeve than more up its sleeve's initial premise

Directed by Michael Caton-Jones, who also helmed Memphis Belle the year before and Rob Roy not long after, Doc Hollywood is a lighthearted romantic comedy with more up more up its sleeve's sleeve than more up its sleeve's initial premise.

a delightful fish-out-of-water story and a solid rom-com

Doc Hollywood is a delightful fish-out-of-water story and a solid rom-com, but the competition is just too good.

documentary

The genres may include film noir, western, gangster, documentary, faux-docs, animation, romantic comedy, melodrama, film nouveau and foreign films.

science fiction flicks

Doc Hollywood takes place in the sort of cinematic fantasy world generally reserved for science fiction flicks (despite being set in the rural part of the Carolinas, bigots, winos and rabid Jesse Helms-Strom Thurmond supporters are nowhere to be found), and it’s the sort of pandering pablum concocted by Hollywood elites who in real life wouldn’t be found dead frequenting a one-horse town like Grady.

in genre from melodramas, thrillers and musicals to comedies and Westerns

Doc Films range in genre from melodramas, thrillers and musicals to comedies and Westerns.

precisely the sort of mildly entertaining movie that is in my wheelhouse

As anyone who has gone thru this process with me knows, Doc Hollywood is precisely the sort of mildly entertaining movie that is in my wheelhouse.

a story as moving as a story is hilarious

Doc Hollywood is a story as moving as a story is hilarious.

graphic novel and fantasy-based films

Hollywood has a surfeit of comic, graphic novel and fantasy-based films from sources such as Stan Lee and J.R.R. Tolkien.