A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle (Murphy) seems to have the world by the tail, until a long-suppresses talent possessed as a child – the ability to communicate with animals- is suddenly reawakened with a vengeance! Now every creature within squawking distance wants the good doctor’s advice, unleashing an outrageous chain of events that turn his world upside down!

Featuring an all-star menagerie of voice talent (including Chris Rock, John Leguizamo, Norm MacDonald, Albert Brooks, Gary Shandling and Ellen DeGeneres), this wild and woolly free-for-all is your prescription for hilarious hijinks and “mischievous fun!” (The New York Times)There’s something intrinsically funny about tactlessly truth-telling talking animals. And there are plenty of those–and laughs to go with them–in this 1998 reimagining of Hugh Lofting’s children’s story. Murphy plays the doctor in question, a modern-day San Francisco physician who discovers that he can understand what animals have to say. Director Betty Thomas makes the most of an amazing voice cast for the animals, led by Norm McDonald and including everyone from Garry Shandling to Julie Kavner to Albert Brooks. The story itself is pretty slim–will the conscientious doctor sign his soul away to a greedy HMO?–but Murphy makes the most of it, often providing priceless reactions to animal voices only he can hear. –Marshall Fine

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