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Robert K. Weiss. There is a sense in which "Doctor Detroit" could be a Jerry Lewis movie. It begins with the portrait of an eccentric, mild-mannered mope who leads a life of quiet desperation. Enter a mob of colorful Chicago criminals, who change the mope's life forever, furnishing him with an alternate identity and a whole new outlook on life.
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. Bruce Jay Friedman. Story, Writer. Michael Pressman.
A pimp (Howard Hesseman) on the run trusts his call girls to a meek professor of literature (Dan Aykroyd), who accepts the challenge.
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Dan Aykroyd stars as a geeky college professor stooge who gets roped into running a high-class call girl service. Aykroyd fills the film with a ton of manic energy and there’s some great songs including a DEVO opener and a James Brown dance number. I just wish more of the absurd goofball humor was actually funny.
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May 6, 1983 · Find trailers, reviews, synopsis, awards and cast information for Doctor Detroit (1984) - Michael Pressman on AllMovie - A college professor named Clifford Skridlow (Dan…
Smooth Walker (Howard Hesseman), a pimp, owes $80,000 to "Mom" (Kate Murtagh), a gruff Chicago mob boss. Attempting to weasel out of his debt, Smooth invents a fictitious mobster, the flamboyant "Doctor Detroit," a ruthless chiropractor who allegedly is overrunning Smooth's turf. Aykroyd meets Smooth and his girls (Donna Dixon, Lydia Lei, Fran ...
Doctor Detroit is Dan Aykroyd's first big solo vehicle, and it has some traditional Motown problems: It sputters and wheezes and lurches, never does run smoothly, never does satisfy. In the spirit of products from another troubled industry, this is a raucous comedy that just doesn't have very many jokes. [10 May 1983, p.B5]
