Doctor Detroit
“He's making the world safe for insanity.”
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.
Genres
Comedy
Studio
Black Rhino Productions
Language
en
Status
Released
How Doctor Detroit performed
Budget
$8.0M
Worldwide Gross
$10.4M
Gross Profit
$2.4M
Return
1.3× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$1M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Clifford Skridlow / Doctor Detroit
Dan Aykroyd
Clifford Skridlow / Doctor Detroit
Smooth Walker
Howard Hesseman
Smooth Walker
Monica McNeil
Donna Dixon
Monica McNeil
Jasmine Wu
Lydia Lei
Jasmine Wu
Diavolo Washington
T.K. Carter
Diavolo Washington
Thelma Cleland
Lynn Whitfield
Thelma Cleland
Karen Blittstein
Fran Drescher
Karen Blittstein
Mom
Kate Murtagh
Mom
Margaret Skridlow
Nan Martin
Margaret Skridlow
Arthur Skridlow
George Furth
Arthur Skridlow
Guptor
Peter Elbling
Guptor
Commodore
John A. Maloney
Commodore
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