MOVIE · 1998
Doctor Dolittle
ComedyFamilyFantasy85 min
John Dolittle has a thriving medical practice and a busy family life when a childhood gift returns without warning: he can suddenly hear — and answer — every animal around him. Eddie Murphy is Dolittle, a doctor whose orderly routine collapses as dogs, birds, monkeys, and other creatures start showing up for advice, dragging his home and work life into public chaos. Betty Thomas’s 1998 film keeps the story grounded in one increasingly overwhelmed household, with Oliver Platt and Ossie Davis among the people caught up in the commotion surrounding a man who can’t stop talking to animals.
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