Finding Normal (2013)
Dr. Lisa Leland is a brilliant surgeon with absolutely no bedside manner. She is leaving her practice at UCLA Hospital to move to the Hamptons where she will join her boyfriend as a concierge doctor, treating the rich and famous. As she drives cross-country to her new life she hits a tractor in Normal, North Carolina and her BMW is wrecked. Dr. Leland is found guilty of speeding and ordered to do community service as a doctor in Normal, population 332. In a town with no wi-fi, no lattes and no credit cards, Lisa Leland begins to find herself and discovers what a meaningful life is all about.
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It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.
Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
Puke! this movie would be the winner of the upchuck awards! I found this movie nauseating! Movie was entertaining enough. But it was just too corny. The female doctor would be miserable if she left her high paying job for a dumb & boring little town she hates. Corny and unrealistic that she falls in love with a HIC town boy she hates after a few dates and leaves a rich boyfriend. Corny and predictable. Also stupid was the fact that she was supposed to be doing community service work but they showed very little of that. That could have been good for the movie.
Even though the town bought a very small plot of land around the cross to get around the law, they were the bad guys who were made to look good in this filmAlso what is wrong with eating good food. Sushi is made fun of in this film along with lattes and all the things considered uppity Why was there only one black person in the town Why did the streets look busy When only 321 people lived thereWhy does going to church make you a good person When you are serving peopleThis movie is not worth your time but the start is cute
Got through 40 minutes of this dreadful thing and turned it off.I go to Venice Beach monthly, where creativity is the pulse of life, to visit family and wonder why people make movies and art that they know will never be blockbusters. They do so because they are artists. Well the people that made this were pandering to the Midwest Christian crowd for the bucks. If they think they were doing something creative, then they need to see someone who can prescribe meds.Trick question if you watch this to the end. What cliché was not used in this movie? Answer: none. Hell, they even have a black guy more white than me!
I suppose if your religion is based on suspending disbelief, this movie is for you. Otherwise, this is 90 minutes you'll never get back. This is a poor remake of Doc Hollywood but with less black people and more make-up. This feel good movie is only for the true believers or the brain dead. This low budget movie makes the same mistake of most low budget movies. The viewer is expected to mentally fill in the plot gaps by understanding the significance of random events. A simple country boy is the deep thinker. Despite the fact that nothing wise ever passes his lips. The antagonist is the Jewish boyfriend who is only interested in money. The black patriarch adopts white kids and has no black family members. Could this movie be any worse?