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Released
1991 · FILM

Doc Hollywood

Ambitious plastic surgeon Ben Stone races to secure a lucrative Beverly Hills practice, but after a crash lands him in a quirky small town where he’s sentenced to serve as the only doctor, he must choose between his high‑stakes career and the unexpected community that needs him.

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

Directed by
Michael Caton Jones
Written by
Neil B Shulman, Laurian Leggett
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
104 min
ComedyDramaRomance

Synopsis

After leaving a hospital in Washington D.C., plastic surgeon Ben Stone travels to California, where a profitable practice in Beverly Hills is waiting for him. Following a car accident, he is sentenced to serve as the community's general practitioner.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 24

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Priscilla Nedd FriendlyShot by Michael ChapmanScored by Carter BurwellDesigned by Lawrence Miller

Box Office

1991 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.7× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$54.8M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$54.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $7.3M — 13% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $11.6M — 21% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,575 theaters

Also known as

  • Doc Hollywood - Dottore in carrierait

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