Bad Medicine

1985

Action / Comedy

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 28% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 28% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 4.7/10 10 1548 1.5K

Plot summary

Jeff Marx wants to study medicine and become a physician. However, his grades are far from enough to get him into an American medical school. But then he gets a chance to study medicine abroad in a small Latin American dictatorship governed by the dictator Ramon Madera who has a big interest in how the medical students behave.

Director

Harvey Miller Photo
Harvey Miller

Top cast

Taylor Negron Photo
Taylor Negron as Pepe the Cab Driver
Joe Grifasi Photo
Joe Grifasi as Gómez
Steve Guttenberg Photo
Steve Guttenberg as Jeff Marx
Alan Arkin Photo
Alan Arkin as Dr. Ramón Madera
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1 hr 38 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by vfrickey 6 / 10

Bad Medicine, no kidding. The movie could use a shot, too.

OK, these folks had a cast of good actors - in fact there are some pleasant surprises in that department, enough to make this a slightly better than average film. More on that later.The screenplay and direction... well, it seems sometimes that any laughs in this thing were accidental - what may have been intended to be the big jokes fall flat, leaving incidental chances for levity. Very occasional chances until well into the film - so hang in there, people, it does get better.What excuse does the director offer for this film? If you're going to do accent and ethnic humor, DO it. Don't hire Alan Arkin, then let him sleepwalk through an acting job - make him ACT, more than he did in the first half of this film. Beat him if you must, but do it. Don't let him be a walking ad for Ambien. Good points? Steve Guttenberg actually surprised me on this one - he did an excellent job of acting, up there with his opening scenes in "The Boys From Brazil" as the young amateur Nazi hunter. So did Gilbert Gottfried, for that matter - he's much better than I have seen him perform in his other films. Bill Macy puts in an honest job, much more than I can say of Arkin, who seems to phone his lines in.Production values? The camera-work's pretty good - they shot the film in Spain and decent professionals did the technical work, but the person responsible for the soundtrack should be shot for having a very heavy hand with the brass in the orchestra and stealing the guitarist from some backyard porn studio in Marin County.Yeah, you should watch it. It's worthwhile if you stick with the film until almost halfway through.
Reviewed by ksf-2 5 / 10

S Guttenberg

Not one of anyone's best work. This came out the same year as Cocoon. Guttenberg had just started the famous Police Academy franchise. Some other pretty big names in comedy -- Alan Arkin (In-Laws), Julie Hegarty (Airplane), Bill Macy (Maude), Curtis Armstrong, Julie Kavner. Also Gilbert Gottfried and Taylor Negron. He and Bob Romanus were in Fast Times together a couple years earlier! When Jeff can't get into med school, he heads off to attend class at a cut rate school. Somewhere in south america, according to the caption. Although imdb says parts were filmed in spain. Of course, the headmaster is the dictator of the country! When Jeff is shot on a field trip, he wants to leave, but Liz talks him into staying and trying to help the locals. The school has only one cadaver, so studying for the exams might be a problem. Unless they can round up another one. It's all just very okay. It's a lot of effort for the jokes they do. The running gag is how incompetent the headmaster is. Novel by Steven Horowitz, Neil Offen. Directed by Harvey Miller. He was involved in lots of television: Love American Style, The Odd Couple. Was even nominated for Private Benjamin. (really!) sadly, Taylor Negron died young from cancer, at age 57.
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