Finding Normal

A New York City doctor drives coast to coast through small town North Carolina and gets caught in a speed trap. Her punishment is to spend 3 days in Normal, where she learns about trust, manners, love and God.

She gets to know the residents of this small town and starts to understand their way of life.

Meanwhile, her possibly fiance, back in New Yawk, continually reminds her that she is costing him $2500/visit while she is not with him.

It's sort of your typical predictable movie, but it is still worth watching.

It would be good for the whole family to watch it together.

Good acting all around.

Trevor St. John as the judge, doctor, and preacher is a cross between Morgan Freeman and Kieth David. Good actor.

My wife and I enjoyed the movie.

Depending on your view of life and how to live it, you may agree with certain things here or not. It is important for some to have and reach certain goals to be happy - or to make others happy. Being in a small town also means everyone knows everyone (sounds cliche but also true).

So what do our characters want here? Or rather is it achievable? In movies I reckon everything is achievable anyway, that aside though, the movie is a journey and a character building one at that. More or less only thinking about herself at first, there is more to discover for our main character (no pun intended). A nice little movie - but surely not for everyone.

This is a light-hearted movie that is inspiring if you like a "dreams come true" type of movie. It emphasizes happiness but faith definitely plays a part as well.

A doctor (Candace Cameron Bure), eager to reach her new life in another city, is caught for speeding and when the license is run, is found to have a number of outstanding violations. At her hearing, she is held without in the town without incarceration until the fines are paid off and her car impounded as a precautions for a potential flight risk. Without local access to her regular means of cash for emergencies, the judge, being the town's secretly ailing physician, has an opportunity for some leisure in his remaining days and uses his less than willing detainee to tend to his many patients who need to be seen on regular rounds during his brief absences. Without a hotel and an open jail and without the use of her car, uses available transportation and the available jail cell each night as her hotel room and during the day makes rounds to his many patients. Over the short time the doctor (Bure) reflects on initial hardships and those she has met and begins to look at life in this small town and the contrast of the life of as a city physician, a physicians's wife while being drawn to a local man. A light romance that injects a twist on the Doc Hollywood. With some funny moments this warm, light romance is a keeper that I will see again and again.

28 July 2014. This predictable, but enjoyable gender twist on Doc Hollywood (1991) starring Michael J. Fox as the urbanized male doctor instead of Candace Cameron Bure who doesn't get top billing even though she has the lead role makes for an entertaining city slicker who begins to appreciate the simple ways of country life.

Unlike Doc Hollywood, there are not as many short clips of doctor visits to fascinating patients and the dramatic older doctor scene is not as pronounced which makes for a more monotone storyline. The old doc in Finding Normal though is a much more fascinating, if less irascible character.

Overall, Finding Normal while it has its charms, some nice photography, and a more prominent religion tone, doesn't quite have the charm and comic finesse as Doc Hollywood.