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Doctor Detroit
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| Doctor Detroit | |
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 Doctor Detroit film poster |
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| Directed by | Michael Pressman |
| Produced by | Robert K. Weiss |
| Written by | Bruce Jay Friedman Carl Gottlieb |
| Starring | Dan Aykroyd Howard Hesseman Fran Drescher |
| Music by | James Brown (theme song, "Get up Offa That Thing/Dr. Detroit") Lalo Schifrin |
| Cinematography | King Baggot |
| Editing by | Christopher Greenbury |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | May 6, 1983 |
| Running time | 89 min. |
| Country | US |
| Language | English |
| Budget | US$8,000,000 (estimated) |
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Doctor Detroit is a 1983 comedy film, written by Bruce Jay Friedman and Carl Gottlieb. The film stars Dan Aykroyd, Howard Hesseman, Lynn Whitfield, Fran Drescher, and Donna Dixon, with a special appearance by James Brown. The film was directed by Michael Pressman.
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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 when it's revealed that they are actually high-class prostitutes. Smooth Walker, the girls' pimp, is in financial (and physical) danger due to his enormous debt with the gruff "Mom," a Chicago mob boss. Smooth invents a fictitious business partner, the flamboyant and no-nonsense "Doctor Detroit," in an attempt to save himself from Mom's wrath. Through a series of comical misunderstandings, Cliff is conned into becoming Smooth Walker's patsy, this Doctor Detroit, and embarks on a dangerous mission to protect the girls from Mom while keeping his secret from his strait-laced parents while simultaneously attempting to secure a large endowment for the struggling university.
- Dan Aykroyd — Clifford Skridlow/Doctor Detroit
- Howard Hesseman — Smooth Walker
- Donna Dixon — Monica McNeil
- Lydia Lei — Jasmine Wu
- T.K. Carter — Diavolo Washington
- Lynn Whitfield — Thelma Cleland
- Fran Drescher — Karen Blittstein
- Kate Murtagh — Mom
- George Furth — Arthur Skridlow
- Nan Martin — Margaret Skridlow
- Peter Aykroyd — Mr. Frankman
- Glenne Headly — Miss Debbylike
- Annabel Armour — Airline Clerk
- Robert Cornthwaite — Professor Blount
- Parley Baer — Judge
- John Kapelos — Rush Street Dude
- James Brown — Bandleader (himself)
- Steven Williams — Junior Sweet
- Andrew Duggan — Harmon Rausehorn
- Peter Elbling — Guptor
- The Illinois license plate on Dan Aykroyd's car ("BDR-529"), is the same plate that was on the "Bluesmobile" in the 1980 film Blues Brothers.
- The end of the film promises a sequel, Doctor Detroit II, the Wrath of Mom. It's possible that this was merely a joke, parodying The Wrath of Khan.
- James Brown performed the theme song to the film "Get up Offa That Thing/Dr. Detroit".
- Devo performed the "Theme From Doctor Detroit" and had another track in the film, "Luv-Luv". There was an EP with the "Theme from Doctor Detroit", "Luv-Luv", and a remix of the theme released, as well as a music video for the theme incorporating footage from the film.
- Dan Aykroyd married Donna Dixon after working with her on this project.