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  1. 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. In the midst of all of this, Dan Aykroyd ...

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  2. Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 24, 2005. Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times. TOP CRITIC. In the midst of all of this, Dan Aykroyd enjoys himself and brings along a certain mad detachment that ...

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  4. Box office. $10,375,893 [1] 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 ...

  5. 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] Read More.

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  6. 3 min read. 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.

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