romantic comedy

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?

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Doc Hollywood, who’s a bigger-than-life character, almost slapstick comedy

I played Doc Hollywood, who’s a bigger-than-life character, almost slapstick comedy.

the definition of a gently/mildly amusing film that entertains but doesn’t stand out in any way whatsoever

Doc Hollywood provides the definition of a gently/mildly amusing film that entertains but doesn’t stand out in any way whatsoever.

comedies

Doc Hollywood and Baby Boom, both very touching movies, sometimes bittersweet comedies, about flinty impatient, easily antagonized urban sophisticated New Yorkers with intolerant attitudes who each end up unexpectedly trapped in very small towns and have to learn to accept a far slower pace of life, actual and not superficial friendships and who both fall in love with people

a story as moving as a story is hilarious

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

the sort of movie which will entertain but won't leave you going

Quote simply "Doc Hollywood" is the sort of movie which will entertain but won't leave you going wow that was great or different.

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.

noir detective story

Doc is the protagonist in this whimsical spin on the noir detective story, which consistently feels like an off-beat, smoke-wreathed reheat of Chinatown.

documentary

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

of genres from contemporary classical and jazz

The Doc which covers a wide spectrum of genres from contemporary classical and jazz to pop, folk, indie and urban music.