Updated June 26, 2020 |
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| 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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