Doctor Dolittle

Doctor Dolittle is a movie starring Eddie Murphy, Peter Boyle, and Ossie Davis. A doctor discovers that he can communicate with animals.
A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a child, the ability to communicate with animals is suddenly reawakened with a vengeance! Now every creature within squawking distance wants the good doctor's advice, unleashing an outrageous chain of events that turns his world upside down!