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Doctor Detroit. 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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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.
- $8 million
- Robert K. Weiss
- May 6, 1983
Apr 23, 2018 · When Chicago pimp Smooth Walker (Howard Hesseman) finds himself deep in debt to kingpin Mom (Kate Murtagh), he decides to find a patsy to blame, inventing a fictional pimp named Doctor Detroit. But Mom wants to meet the man Walker claims is muscling in on his business.
May 6, 1983 · Doctor Detroit: Directed by Michael Pressman. With Dan Aykroyd, Howard Hesseman, Donna Dixon, Lydia Lei. A pimp on the run trusts his sex workers to a meek professor of literature, who accepts the challenge.
- Michael Pressman
- 2 min
Comedy superstar Dan Aykroyd stars as a mild-mannered professor of chivalry and infamous underworld pimp in the hilarious comic romp Doctor Detroit.
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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.
