A throwback to Forties-style stories has to be something special to make it in today's all-action, special effects-dominated film world. This nothing-much-happens number certainly isn't that. Michael J Fox is the brash city doctor headed for a career in plastic surgery, but sidelined into a small country town, Grady, en route. That's where he crashes his car, has to do 32 hours' community service as a doctor, and falls for the local ambulance driver (Julie Warner). There's not enough of Fox's involvement with the locals to make an emotive story out of all this, and it remains a lightweight, faintly unbelievable tale. Director Michael Caton-Jones' handling is competent and assured, although he has several sizes to go to fill the boots of the great Frank Capra, to whose work this film has been compared. Though in somewhat similar vein, it lacks both the richness of detail and the heart that so distinguished Capra's output. There's a very interesting supporting cast, though, including George Hamilton, Woody Harrelson and Bridget Fonda.

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