Abstract
The summer of 1991 witnessed a spate of popular movies with a strikingly similar theme. Each of these movies features a more or less middle-aged white who is moderately to wildly successful in a highpressure, high-prestige occupation. Suddenly, because of the vagaries of his own body tissue, random violence, or a desire to forestall the onset of age, these men find themselves humbled, frustrated, and, as a result, miraculously humanized. In Regarding Henry, an amoral lawyer needs a bullet in the brain to rediscover his own ethics; in The Doctor, a heartless surgeon recovers his ability to care after a bout with a tumor; in Doc Hollywood, a cynical plastic surgeon finds love through mandatory community service in a small South Carolina town; and in City Slickers, a joyless New York professional delivers a calf and discovers the meaning of life. In the summer of 1991, the wilderness was located not in Wyoming but in corporate America; the enemy was not the red man but the system, the rat race
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