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The Doctor *** (1991, William Hurt, Christine Lahti, Elizabeth Perkins, Mandy Patinkin, Adam Arkin, Charlie Korsmo, Wendy Crewson, Bill Macy) – Classic Movie Review 8773

Director Randa Haines’s polished 1992 drama The Doctor stars William Hurt as rich, uncaring, selfish San Francisco surgeon Dr Jack MacKee (favourite phrase ‘get in and get out’), who finds that he too is faced […]

Jul, 30

Doc Hollywood *** (1991, Michael J. Fox, Julie Warner, Bridget Fonda, Barnard Hughes, Woody Harrelson) – Classic Movie Review 8767

Director Michael Caton-Jones’s good-natured, nicely cast 1991 romantic comedy drama Doc Hollywood stars Michael J Fox as arrogant young big-city doctor Dr Ben Stone, who is sentenced to 32 hours community service in a small […]

Jul, 28

Freddy Got Fingered (2001, Tom Green, Rip Torn, Marisa Coughlan) – Classic Movie Review 8696

Co-writer/ director Tom Green’s 2001 comedy Freddy Got Fingered stars Tom Green as failing unemployed cartoonist Gord Brody, who is forced to move back home where he ends up weaving a web of lies designed […]

Jul, 11

The Incredible Melting Man ** (1977, Alex Rebar, Burr DeBenning, Myron Healey) – Classic Movie Review 8578

Writer-director William Sachs’s amusingly silly and entertainingly horrible 1977 drive-in sci-fi-horror movie The Incredible Melting Man stars Alex Rebar as infected spaceman Steve West (aka The Incredible Melting Man of course), whose flesh melts incredibly […]

Jun, 10

County Hospital *** (1932, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert, May Wallace, William Austin) – Classic Movie Review 8571

‘Mr Hardy fell on his leg and was laid up for two months. Mr Laurel fell on his head and hadn’t felt better in years.’ Director James Parrott’s 1932 Hal Roach Studios black and white […]

Jun, 09

Twice Round the Daffodils *** (1962, Juliet Mills, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Ronald Lewis, Andrew Ray, Joan Sims, Jill Ireland) – Classic Movie Review 8118

Juliet Mills stars as a nice nurse called Catty, who tends randy, troublesome patients, in director Gerald Thomas’s minor, very British 1962 farce Twice Round the Daffodils, set in a men’s tuberculosis clinic, where, as […]

Feb, 11

The Ruling Class **** (1972, Peter O’Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe) – Classic Movie Review 7974

Director Peter Medak’s 1972 The Ruling Class is a superb British comedy with a superb British comedy cast that kicks into top gear a painstaking version of Peter Barnes’s offbeat play satirising the nation’s aristocracy, […]

Jan, 03

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