Dr. Dolittle
Updated June 26, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
Director: | Betty Thomas |
Writers: | Nat Mauldin and Larry Levin |
Director of Photography: | Russell Boyd |
Editor: | Peter Teschner |
Music: | Richard Gibbs |
Production Designer: | William Elliott |
Producers: | John Davis, Joseph M. Singer and David T. Friendly |
20th Century Fox; PG–13; 85 minutes | |
Release: | 7/98 |
Cast: | Eddie Murphy, Ossie Davis, Oliver Platt and Kristen Wilson |
With the Voices of: | Norm MacDonald, Albert Brooks, Chris Rock, Reni Santoni, John Leguizamo, Ellen DeGeneres and Paul Reubens. |
Based on the "Doctor Dolittle" stories by Hugh Lofting |
This delightful rendition of the Doctor Dolittle story, last seen as a Broadway play and a 1954 film, features Eddie Murphy as a mild-mannered people doctor who rediscovers his natural ability to talk to the animals (DeGeneres plays Dolittle's canine buddy from boyhood), a talent he attempts to hide from his family and colleagues. Murphy plays the straight man; it's the motley crew of animals who do the wisecracking here. Among the four-legged and feathered creatures Dolittle befriends: a dog (McDonald), a raccoon (Reubens), his daughter's guinea pig (Rock) and a tiger (Brooks).
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