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"He was headed for Beverly Hills to be a plastic surgeon... but he took an exit to a town that didn't take plastic."

Aug 2 1991 PG-13 1h 44m
Comedy, Drama, Romance

After leaving Washington D.C. hospital, plastic surgeon Ben Stone heads for California, where a lucrative practice in Beverly Hills awaits. After a car accident, he's sentenced to perform as the community's general practitioner.

Plot

Benjamin Stone is a young doctor driving to L.A., where he is interviewing for a high-paying 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 hours of community service at the local hospital. All he wants is to serve the sentence, get his car fixed 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?

Written by

Neil B. Shulman, Laurian Leggett, Jeffrey Price

Directed by

Michael Caton-Jones

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
42,514
Average Rating
6.3 out of 10
Metascore
56
Popularity
NA