As a Canadian, I am a fan of Edmonton-born Michael J. You may recall he drove a replica Porsche 356 Speedster in that show (which he crashed in a small town where he found love and a new life). Critic Simon Kinnear of Total Filmconcurred, stating "Actually, this one pretty muc… Lightning McQueen is hosting an international championship in Radiator Springs, to celebrate the construction of his new racing stadium and headquarters. I don’t quite get why the OP should be bothered by this. I help with shipping world wide. So I’m not the only one who thinks we’re building the “ultimate” 356! Fantastic and completely unexpected. It was his movie, Doc Hollywood, that made me a replica fan. HICK TOWN The makers of the Disney/Pixar film Cars have been accused of plagiarizing its plot from this film. I mean, c’mon Pixar! Fast-forward to the 2000s, and that movie. Cars: En route to California, Lightning is riding in the trailer of an 18-wheeler (Mack, voiced by John Ratzenberger – who has made a cottage industry of voicing Pixar movies). Cars: Owen Wilson provides the voice of Lightning McQueen, a NASCAR-esque racer who finished in a tie with a Richard Petty-esque car (voiced by the King himself) and an asshole car (voiced by the ever-surprising Michael Keaton) for the Piston Cup. The city is struggling, as drivers no longer stop by for gas, tires, paint jobs, etc. When Dr. Stone shows up, he gleefully points out all of the things that the hotshot young doctor doesn’t know. I thoroughly enjoyed Cars, but I can still readily see that in storyline and theme and characters and tone, it’s pretty much a lot like Doc Hollywood.That’s simply a statement of fact. Original Car From Doc Hollywood. So, the judge assigns Dr. Stone to pay for the damages to his fence by serving the town as its doctor for a week. Doc Hollywood is a surefire prescription for comedy cheer! Burt Levy, the well-known automotive journalist, is famous for the phrase “the last open road,” a reference to the times when driving was freer and less encumbered. Fox. The fence belongs to the town magistrate. Doc Hollywood (Brasil: Dr. Hollywood - Uma Receita de Amor /Portugal: Doutor Sarilhos) é um filme de comédia romântica estadunidense de 1991 dirigido por Michael Caton-Jones, e escrito por Jeffrey Price e Peter S. Seaman.O filme é estrelado por Michael J. This last issue was addressed by lengthening the wheelbase of the body and later, as customer engine choices stepped up several times from 2.2-liter to eventually the ultimate 993 3.6-lite, the rear body track width was also altered to provide room for matching wheel and tire choices. Doc Hollywood: Michael J. It all started with a movie. I mean, really… I grew up in a town that had a “Poultry Jubilee” and boasted the “World’s Largest Frying Pan” and I was aghast at the depiction of Grady. Chick appears and tells Lightning that he plans wins the Race-O-Rama series to shut down the Doc Hudson Racing Academy, thus bringing mor… The MJ Fox classic is never mentioned. Lightning tries to catch up with Mack, but he accidentally follows another 18-wheeler and finds himself near Radiator Springs. Like millions of other parents around the US, this weekend I trundled off with my kid to see the new Pixar/Disney movie, Cars. As a Canadian, I am a fan of Edmonton-born Michael J. Paul Newman voices Doc Hudson, the town’s magistrate and mechanic (aka, doctor) who’s really hard on Lightning throughout the movie. They are voiced by, respectively, Larry the Cable Guy, Tony Shaloub, George Carlin, Paul Dooley, Cheech Marin … The main car that Fox drove in that movie - at least in the opening scenes - is a red speedster with a white dash, much like this one being sold. A big city doctor is stranded in a small rural town, where he finds love, professional challenges, and a pet pig, in this comedy. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Her character was pretty complex and deep. That’s a 4-3 decision. Overall, this is one of his good early 90s efforts that helped us forget movies like The Hard Way, Light of Day and Bright Lights, Big City (the last one at least gave us the foundation for an all-time porn movie title… think about it). So, if Radiator Springs wasn’t life-like, no biggie. Hell, again, it’s essentially the same plot. In Doc Hollywood, he did a phenomenal job with a B+ script. 2. Classic. Overall, a great job. Cars: Here’s where the similarities get really weird. Along the way, we learn that Doc Hudson was a former Piston Cup champ – a fact he hid from everyone in Radiator Springs – but he retired after wrecking in a race. Doc Hollywood: Barnard Hughes plays Doc Hogue, the town doctor who delivered babies and tended to the sick in Grady for decades. Doc Hollywood: In Grady, Dr. Stone runs into a bunch of characters: Woody Harrelson as Lou’s would-be fiancée Hank Gordon, David Ogden Stiers as the mayor, and Bridget Fonda as the mayor’s amorous daughter. Mack falls asleep on I-40, and a sleeping Lightning accidentally falls out of the trailer. Nobody did. Just a nice… bit of scenery. You with me? So, the first thing that sprang to mind on noticing the featurette called The Inspiration for 'Cars' was: Doc Hollywood. Doc Hollywood: Four words. I went the used car route first, buying a sweet rooster-red roadster, then a much sportier silver Speedster. Cars: In Radiator Springs, Lightning meets Mater the tow truck, Luigi who sells tires and loves racing cars but only Ferraris in Europe (note that Dr. Stone drove a foreign sportscar in Doc Hollywood, by the way), Fillmore the hippy who lives next to Sarge the army car, Ramone who does paint jobs for cars and his girl Flo who owns the service station. As they old saying goes, it rides likes it’s on rails. So, the movie revolves around Lightning’s trek to a three-car, winner-take-all race in California. Fox) hops in his Porsche and is headed for California, where a lucrative practice in Beverly Hills awaits. — Michael Zink Benjamin Stone is a young doctor driving to L.A., where he is interviewing for a … With Intermeccanica’s long history of building unique sports cars, I knew I would find the car I wanted. We also had to develop custom strut top mounts that not only performed better than the stock 911 units, but also fit under the original-profile fenders. Advantage: Doc Hollywood. FEMALE LEAD WACKY DETOUR OFF THE INTERSTATE My concern is that you’ve actually watched Doc Hollywood more than once! Then it hits me… a hot-shot racecar on his way to California takes an inadvertent detour from the interstate, winds up in some BFE town, accidentally causes damage, gets sentenced to “community service,” has to stay in town for a week, rails against the slow-witted townfolk at first, falls in love with the random way-too-hot-for-this-hick-town local girl, gets into a spat with the crusty town doctor, ultimately falls for the charms of the town as well as the girl, learns ass loads of life lessons, winds up coming back to BFE town… etc. 'It just rips off Doc Hollywood, almost note for note,' said Christy Lemire of the San Francisco Chronicle." We're talking about Doc Hollywood, the Michael J. The result is a superb combination — an open-top, air-cooled, Porsche-inspired sports car with the look of the timeless 356-A and the power of the 911, along with a purpose-built steel-tube chassis that weighs at least 500 pounds less than any 911! It goes as far back as 1986, when my father and I were developing the tube chassis that would eventually replace the combination of subframe and VW floor pan, upon which all previous Intermeccanica 356 reproduction vehicles had been built. Fox, Julie Warner, Barnard Hughes, Woody Harrelson. From Family Ties through Spin City and most movies in between, he always brought his A game. In the immortal words of Michael Bolton from Office Space, LTCG is in fact an no-talent ass clown. Doc Hollywood is the story of a young and promising doctor that’s bound for Beverly Hills where he plans to make a good living, perhaps a superior living, as a plastic surgeon. Fox and company. The Car is a Replic with some Original parts nice condition . COLORFUL CAST OF SECONDARY CATEGORIES ( Log Out / Photos courtesy of Henry Reisner, Intermeccanica. Hey, I figured out how to change the WordPress theme! Doc Hudson sentences him to repave Main Street. This is a very good Change . Advantage: Cars. Jose Feliciano? "Many reviewers also felt that Cars' plot was too indebted to the 1991 Michael J Fox comedy Doc Hollywood, in which a hotshot Los Angeles doctor learns a new set of values when he is stranded in an average American town. At least, that's what I understood. Nope. About 15 minutes into it, I started to think, I’ve seen this before. A real asshole with a heart of gold, I guess. When a customer asks, “Which engine and suspension package would you choose to build the ultimate Intermeccanica?” I always have the same answer: the ultimate air-cooled engine, a Porsche 911 six-cylinder, along with its five-speed transaxle and fantastic suspension, steering and brakes! Stiers is always solid (Major Winchester!). With close to 300 horsepower, there is no lack of acceleration, and the Porsche 911 suspension, steering and brakes makes it handle as it should. Like Julie Warner, Bridget Fonda was absolutely peaking when this movie was made. Plus, it really ups the value of re-watching the movie on HBO, not on basic cable. The makers of "Doc Hollywood" called. Owen does a good job of capturing this character. Plus, we later found out that his Parkinson’s disease really started to show while he was making this movie. Did you notice? This setup is by no means new. After you saw it the first time you had to know she wasn’t getting naked again! She emerges buck freakin’ naked from a lake as Dr. Stone is trying to shake off a hangover after his first night in Grady. That’s funny, I don’t care who you are. She was “bringing the room down” before singing “Let’s Wait Awhile” and I just shouted it out. ( Log Out / Sheriff Rosco P. Coltraine's police car and Cooter's truck outside Hollywood Star Cars Museum 1995 Mitsubishi Eclipse from The Fast and the Furious at Hollywood Star Cars Museum This 1960 Porsche 356 Speedster was driven by Michael J. Who planned that trip? These two stories are identical. So, let’s go to the tally. Change ). It was Julie Warner in her heyday (which began with this movie and strangely enough ends with Tommy Boy). My answer is simple: A “real” car could never be as unique or as personal as this one is. Stop us if you think you've heard this one before: A young hotshot on his way to Los Angeles causes a crash and gets stuck in a small town. Scottish director Michael Caton-Jones chose Micanopy to double as the fictional town of Grady, S.C., "the Squash Capital of the South." OK, I must say that the similarities between the two movies are indeed staggering. I always thought the Grady was a little too stereotypical of Southern towns. Julie Warner had a small role in Joel Schumacher’s Oscar-nominated film “Flatliners” (1990), playing alongside Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon and Julia Roberts, but her biggest role came a year later in Michael Caton-Jones’ romantic comedy called “Doc Hollywood”. SMP 200th post extravaganza (an all-clip episode) « sweet monkey pie, Why the ‘Cars 3’ Daytona 500 Trailer Makes Me Far Less Excited About This Pixar Sequel | Fishstream TV, UNC baseball: Undone by karma (and some poor fielding). Playing a self-assured doctor. And now I have a British racing green German-Canadian car. A truck drove through a group of protesters in Hollywood on Thursday night, striking and running over at least one person as it sped through the crowd, footage shows. Cars: A majority of the movie takes place in Radiator Springs, a former stop on the famed Route 66 that was bypassed when I-40 came through the area. You certainly should see most of the plot points coming a mile down the interstate. Advantage: Doc Hollywood. Fox gem, from its basic plot points to its feel-good conclusion. That’s ri-damn-diculous. No? Fox as a doctor on a road trip from Washington, DC, to Beverly Hills to begin a new job. But, if you’re looking for a good movie, and you liked Doc Hollywood, you could do worse than Cars. My allegiances switched back and forth from England to Germany — front engine, water cooled to rear engine, air cooled. You figure it out. Phone:(702) 331.6400. At the end of the race, the members of the other academy crashes the Doc Hudson Racing Academy. Active 2 years, 11 months ago. On the other hand, the entire Cars movie is based on a fantasy where cars are the world’s only inhabitants. Even so, the challenges of doing so were numerous, such as the need to make the space in the chassis and within the original body profile house the longer six-cylinder engine and five-speed transaxle. I haven’t seen plagiarism like this since Dook basketball great Greg Newton. 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