Doctor Dolittle

“He doesn't just talk to the animals!”

A successful doctor starts hearing the voices of animals around him, a gift he had as a child but learned to ignore. Dr. John Dolittle (Eddie Murphy) tries to dismiss it as stress until a basset hound with a literal heart condition forces him to listen. Betty Thomas shoots the film with warmth and antic energy, letting the animals talk back as if conversation were the most natural thing in the world.