Doctor Detroit (1983)
He's making the world safe for insanity.
A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago. A chance encounter with four beautiful women at a restaurant changes his life forever.
- Date of release
- 1983-05-06
- TMDB
- 5.1 / 10 (82)
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Michael Pressman
Casting
- Dan Aykroyd — Clifford Skridlow / Doctor Detroit
- Howard Hesseman — Smooth Walker
- Donna Dixon — Monica McNeil
- Lydia Lei — Jasmine Wu
- T.K. Carter — Diavolo Washington
- Lynn Whitfield — Thelma Cleland
- Fran Drescher — Karen Blittstein
- Kate Murtagh — Mom
- Nan Martin — Margaret Skridlow
- George Furth — Arthur Skridlow
- Peter Elbling — Guptor
- John A. Maloney — Commodore
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: Chicago
Doctor Detroit is a 1983 American comedy film directed by Michael Pressman with writing by Bruce Jay Friedman, Carl Gottlieb, and Robert Boris. The film stars Dan Aykroyd, Howard Hesseman, Lynn Whitfield, Fran Drescher, and Donna Dixon, with a special appearance by James Brown. It was the first film Aykroyd made after the death of John Belushi, and the first one in which he is not sharing top bill with other actors. Aykroyd and his co-star Dixon married soon after the film's release.
Filming
The film was shot on location in Chicago and Evanston, Illinois, as well as at the University of Southern California and Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California, during the summer of 1982.
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