# Doctor Dolittle (1998)

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**Runtime**: 85 min
**Genres**: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
**Directed by**: Betty Thomas
**Written by**: Nat Mauldin, Larry Levin, Hugh Lofting
**Starring**: Eddie Murphy, Ossie Davis, Oliver Platt, Peter Boyle, Richard Schiff, Kristen Wilson

> *He doesn't just talk to the animals!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A man who talks to animals because a cartoonish childhood quirk never left. After a career as a human doctor, he’s summoned by an urgent health crisis in the animal kingdom, sparking a household of interspecies chaos. It’s a noisy, sugar-rush take on a once-beloved myth.

**Mood tags**: cozy, playful

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 5.4/10 (107260 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 44% · Metacritic 46/100

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