Finding Normal
Finding Normal
| 18 May 2013 (USA)
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Dr. Lisa Leland is a brilliant surgeon with absolutely no bedside manner. She is leaving her practice at UCLA Hospital to move to the Hamptons where she will join her boyfriend as a concierge doctor, treating the rich and famous. As she drives cross-country to her new life she hits a tractor in Normal, North Carolina and her BMW is wrecked. Dr. Leland is found guilty of speeding and ordered to do community service as a doctor in Normal, population 332. In a town with no wi-fi, no lattes and no credit cards, Lisa Leland begins to find herself and discovers what a meaningful life is all about.

Reviews
KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?
Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.
cindy-10821 Puke! this movie would be the winner of the upchuck awards! I found this movie nauseating! Movie was entertaining enough. But it was just too corny. The female doctor would be miserable if she left her high paying job for a dumb & boring little town she hates. Corny and unrealistic that she falls in love with a HIC town boy she hates after a few dates and leaves a rich boyfriend. Corny and predictable. Also stupid was the fact that she was supposed to be doing community service work but they showed very little of that. That could have been good for the movie.
sistertrudy The second song played during the Foundation Day Dance is NOT 'Stay" by Jake Smith as credited. It is "Something Like You" by Jason Martin & the Corner Pocket. It is available as a digital download on Amazon & it is included on the CD The Blackout Sessions also at Amazon. You will be disappointed if you buy "Stay." What an injustice to Jason Martin & Corner Pocket. Time to get the lawyers involved. Jason Martin & the Corner Pocket are doing OK though. Two CDS on Amazon so far.I pay attention to the songs I hear in movies & watch the credits if I hear a song I like but can't identify the title or artist. This is a glaring mistake & should be corrected by those responsible. I pity the people who have purchased the Jake Smith CD!!
hazletine-dooley There are so many errors in this film, it is nearly ludicrous.A successful woman surgeon, leaving Los Angeles to drive to New York for a job in the Hamptons where she will making obscene amounts of money is caught speeding and, unable to pay the fine, she sentenced to three days' community service in a small rural NC town. She is taken under the wing of the judge, a black man who guides her through several poignant experiences and community gatherings wherein she finds God and changes the direction of her life.The whole premise of the movie is preposterous, but the part I resent is the portrayal of a non-existent idyllic lifestyle in small rural NC town without the recognition of the rampant poverty that exists in such towns.The notion that a small, apparently all white rural NC town would hero worship a black man, making him their spiritual, civic, and legal leader is preposterous. Furthermore, it is most unlikely that in NC, a black man would have been allowed to adopt white children in the 80's, or even now for that matter.That a Yankee would find such an immediate welcome in a small NC town is questionable.The idea that providing leftovers from a pancake breakfast to those in need is a laudable act worth mentioning in an area where one in four children is undernourished in abominable.I could rant on, but I won't.
lafscal Even though the town bought a very small plot of land around the cross to get around the law, they were the bad guys who were made to look good in this filmAlso what is wrong with eating good food. Sushi is made fun of in this film along with lattes and all the things considered uppity Why was there only one black person in the town Why did the streets look busy When only 321 people lived thereWhy does going to church make you a good person When you are serving peopleThis movie is not worth your time but the start is cute