They are voiced by, respectively, Larry the Cable Guy, Tony Shaloub, George Carlin, Paul Dooley, Cheech Marin and Jenifer Lewis. The Car is a Replic with some Original parts nice condition . The Doc Hollywood writers should sue the pants off of Steve Jobs’ boys and girls at Pixar. Even with all these technical hurdles we’ve had to overcome, the Intermeccanica six-cylinder-powered 356 reproduction continues to be our flagship reproduction, with more being built every year. Let’s do a comparison of Cars and Doc Hollywood. To say that I was surprised by this scene is putting it mildly. 'It just rips off Doc Hollywood, almost note for note,' said … Anyone want to see who wins? Awwwww… WACKY DETOUR OFF THE INTERSTATE What is there not to love? The characters are the same. Doc Hollywood: Julie Warner plays Vialula, aka Lou, an ambulance driver who’s actually a lawyer that once lived in New York, but she got knocked up and moved back to Grady with her daughter. You with me? So, the movie revolves around Lightning’s trek to a three-car, winner-take-all race in California. Owen was good, but Fox made Doc Hollywood an enjoyable movie, especially in multiple viewings. It was an intense process, having a bespoke vehicle built, but Henry Reisner of Intermeccanica catered to my every whim. My answer is simple: A “real” car could never be as unique or as personal as this one is. The MJ Fox classic is never mentioned. Doc Hollywood: Four words. I went the used car route first, buying a sweet rooster-red roadster, then a much sportier silver Speedster. We're talking about Doc Hollywood, the Michael J. Which raises yet another question… if this was in the first 30 minutes of the movie (which I believe it was) what made you watch the remaining 1 hour? Yep, change “hot-shot racecar” to “hot-shot doctor” and you’ve got the plot of Doc Hollywood, starring Michael J. That’s ri-damn-diculous. Photos courtesy of Henry Reisner, Intermeccanica. Fox, Julie Warner, Barnard Hughes, Woody Harrelson. These two stories are identical. Lightning McQueen is hosting an international championship in Radiator Springs, to celebrate the construction of his new racing stadium and headquarters. I’ve always had what I would call a “sporty” car, starting with a baffed-out Bugeye Sprite back in high school, during the days of the British sports car invasion of the 1960s. That’s a 4-3 decision. Fast-forward to the 2000s, and that movie. While trying to evade the police (he’s being stopped because he has decals for headlights, not the lights themselves), he pretty much rips the town apart. It was his movie, Doc Hollywood, that made me a replica fan. After you saw it the first time you had to know she wasn’t getting naked again! Cars: While speaking to an audience at a sponsor’s event, Lightning prepares to address the crowd when the lights dim. Doc Hollywood is a surefire prescription for comedy cheer! From Family Ties through Spin City and most movies in between, he always brought his A game. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Plus, we later found out that his Parkinson’s disease really started to show while he was making this movie. Just a nice… bit of scenery. Fox gem, from its basic plot points to its feel-good conclusion. Although based on your comments, I can assume it was primarily for the Julie Warner nude scene. Next stop, Netflix, to put Doc Hollywood back on the queue…, thanks man our final exam in english is to compare cars to doc hollywood ahahha : It’s all silent and dark… and then you hear something from the back of the room. ( Log Out /  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. Who planned that trip? Amazon.com At first glance, this 1991 comedy looks like another formulaic fluff-piece with a standard fish-out-of-water scenario--in this case a hotshot young doctor (Michael J. Did your writer just find an old script and copy it? Very nice comparison! These movies are so similar, it's almost like they're set in mirror dimensions -- and in one of those dimensions, every character is a talking car. Advantage: Doc Hollywood. Playing a self-assured doctor. Mack falls asleep on I-40, and a sleeping Lightning accidentally falls out of the trailer. The city is struggling, as drivers no longer stop by for gas, tires, paint jobs, etc. But it surprised me by also being a love story, and a pretty good one - the kind where the lovers are smart enough to know all the reasons why they shouldn't get together, but too much in love to care. Stiers is always solid (Major Winchester!). Fox. 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). SHOCKING MOMENT Just like Lou went to law school in Doc Hollywood. CRUSTY OLD MAN IN TOWN I mean, c’mon Pixar! A young doctor on his way across the country to a job interview crashes his car in a small town and is sentenced to work for several days at the town hospital. "It just rips off Doc Hollywood, almost note for note," said Christy Lemire of the San Francisco Chronicle. 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! Fox comedy about a doctor who wants to go to Hollywood, and also Cars, the Pixar film about cars. Scottish director Michael Caton-Jones chose Micanopy to double as the fictional town of Grady, S.C., "the Squash Capital of the South." Doc Hollywood ( 2,445 ) IMDb 6.2 1 h 43 min 1991 X-Ray PG-13 Michael J. Doc Hollywood and Rise to Prominence. I do think that John Lasseter’s original Cars film is a better movie than most people will admit. 'It just rips off Doc Hollywood, almost note for note,' said Christy Lemire of the San Francisco Chronicle." 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. I’m proud to admit that portions of Doc Hollywood – including the famous lake scenes – were filmed in my own hometown of Mechanicsville, VA. Reading this one day after watching the movie CARS made my whole day. Doc Hollywood: Much of this movie is set in the fictional Grady, South Carolina – home of the Squash Festival (or something like that). Not really a close race. Unique Classics, Replicas and Build Culture, A physician inspired by a cinematic Porsche 356 — but with 911 mechanicals, Docol R8: A New Standard in Chassis Fabrication, Copyright 2021 Rare Car Network. I think Henry enjoyed this build as much as I did (note sidebar). Cars: Here’s where the similarities get really weird. And that he’s as much of a redneck as George W. is a cowboy? Plus, any movie with Larry the Cable Guy loses style points. Hell, again, it’s essentially the same plot. Lightning McQueen and the Doc Hudson Racing Academy are in a race competing against a rival academy. Doc Hollywood and Cars. Fox) hops in his Porsche and is headed for California, where a lucrative practice in Beverly Hills awaits. And a brand new “real” car would never give me the feeling I get when I push that start button, put the transmission in gear, and head down the road. I help with shipping world wide. So, the judge assigns Dr. Stone to pay for the damages to his fence by serving the town as its doctor for a week. Chassisnumber 117356551. A young doctor on his way across the country to a job interview crashes his car in a small town and is sentenced to work for several days at the town hospital. So, if Radiator Springs wasn’t life-like, no biggie. They want their movie back. It all started with a movie. 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. At the end of the race, the members of the other academy crashes the Doc Hudson Racing Academy. But that’s about it. 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. And during a conversation about sex, Woody (huh huh) drops in a line about animal husbandry. She bristles against the charms of Lightning initially, but she ultimately falls for the hunk. And now I have a British racing green German-Canadian car. The makers of "Doc Hollywood" called. Doc Hollywood: En route to Calilfornia, Dr. Stone looks at a map while driving a little too fast in his vintage Porsche. Paul Newman voices Doc Hudson, the town’s magistrate and mechanic (aka, doctor) who’s really hard on Lightning throughout the movie. And yes, I’ve officially been thinking about this waaaaay too much. 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. 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. I haven’t seen plagiarism like this since Dook basketball great Greg Newton. On the basis of the movie's trailer, I was expecting "Doc Hollywood" to be a comedy. It's a familiar plot made special by Fox's talents and a heartwarming script. And as a Canadian, I knew the company that builds the world’s best 356 replicas was right here at home: Intermeccanica, headquartered in British Columbia. She emerges buck freakin’ naked from a lake as Dr. Stone is trying to shake off a hangover after his first night in Grady. HOLLYWOOD CARS MUSEUM 5115 DEAN MARTIN DR #905 LAS VEGAS, NV 89118. 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. I guess you can see I appreciated rear-engine, air-cooled cars. All rights reserved |. So, the first thing that sprang to mind on noticing the featurette called The Inspiration for 'Cars' was: Doc Hollywood. Not sure how many stoplights it had, but you could walk down the street with a pig and nobody would look at you with a bit of amusement. Advantage: Doc Hollywood. Lightning witnesses this and they reveal that they are from the Chick Hicks Racing Academy. Fox stars in this romantic comedy about a Beverly Hills-bound doctor who gets stranded in a Southern town where he finds himself falling in love, and re-evaluating his life.