Factual error: Deer are not repelled by the smell of human urine, and in fact it does not have "a" smell - it has many. The smell of human urine varies enormously based upon diet, health and environmental factors so that no wild animal could possibly be scared of them all. Even if Lou didn't know this (and everything about her character suggests she should), Doctor Stone would - he is a doctor, after all.
Doc Hollywood (1991)
Directed by: Michael Caton-Jones
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Michael J. Fox, Barnard Hughes, Julie Warner
Continuity mistake: As Doc is driving out of town near the end, he stops to help Mary, who is having a difficult birth inside the family station wagon. Doc backs up and parks his car, the front-end is partially across road. While he assists with the birth, a large truck is fast-approaching, only Doc's car is now sitting all the way across the road when it gets hit.
Continuity mistake: When Doc Hollywood first enters the room to save Dr. Hogue, the doctor has both hands on the table. The camera angle changes to a front view and Dr.Hogue now has one hand on his chest and one on the table.
Trivia: When Doctor Stone meets with Bridget Fonda and Woody Harrelson at the bar in Beverly Hills, Bridget says "Is that a movie star?" and Woody says, "Nah, that's just Ted Danson" (a dig at Woody's then costar on 'Cheers').
Trivia: It was while working on this movie that Michael J. Fox noticed the shaking of his hands which were the symptoms of Parkinson, the disease which prevents him from taking an active role ever since. His flexing his hands on the steering wheel at the beginning of the movie is him trying to keep his hands still.
Nancy Lee Nicholson: Is that a star?
Hank Gordon: No, that's Ted Danson.
Dr. Benjamin Stone: You want to trade, the pig for the part?
Melvin the Mechanic: If you can part with the pig.
Dr. Benjamin Stone: Good.
Dr. Benjamin Stone: Are you allergic to penicillin?
Simon Tidwell, First Patient: Don't know.You'd have to ask doc Hogue.
Dr. Benjamin Stone: I doubt doc Hogue knows it's even been discovered.
Question: Why do the Owens go to the doctors to have their mail read? Even a small town like Grady would have a librarian, not to mention they certainly have friends who can read.
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Answer: That's just the long-standing relationship they had with Doc Hogue and assumed it would continue with Dr. Stone. Hogue was more than a doctor to the town folk. He was a strong father-figure that everyone felt they could go to for a variety of reasons. Also, this is a comedy film, so the characters and their situations are deliberately cliched and quirky.
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