He's shallow, he's self-involved--in short (and he is short, too), he's a perfect candidate to be a plastic surgeon. But, as played by Michael J. Fox, he's riding for a fall, and gets it when his car crashes in a tiny South Carolina town. The accident is his fault, so his punishment is doing community service which, in this town, means being the town doctor (because there isn't one). Even as he's chafing at the bit to get to the Beverly Hills practice where he'll be working, he's discovering that small-town life has its rewards. This is a movie that's never quite as funny as you wish, but it still manages to inspire a lot of good will, thanks to a varied cast of veteran actors that includes Barnard Hughes, David Ogden Stiers, and Frances Sternhagen, as well as an intriguing brace of young ones: Julie Warner, Bridget Fonda, and Woody Harrelson. George Hamilton is perfectly cast as Fox's prospective new boss. --Marshall Fine
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