Bad Medicine (film)

Infobox Film
name = Bad Medicine


caption = Promotional movie poster for the film
director = Harvey Miller
producer = Arlene Sellers
Alex Winitsky
writer = Harvey Miller
starring = Steve Guttenberg
Alan Arkin
Julie Hagerty
Curtis Armstrong
Robert Romanus
music = Lalo Schifrin
cinematography = Kelvin Pike
editing = O. Nicholas Brown
John Jympson
Keith Palmer
distributor = 20th Century Fox
released = 1985
runtime = 156 min.
country = USA
awards =
language = English
budget =
gross = $2,685,453 (USA) (sub-total)
amg_id = 1:3740
imdb_id = 0088765

"Bad Medicine" is a 1985 comedy film starring Steve Guttenberg, Alan Arkin, and Julie Hagerty. The film was written and directed by Harvey Miller, and was based on the novel "Calling Dr. Horowitz", by Steven Horowitz and Neil Offen.

The film was criticized for its negative ethnic stereotypes. It was released by 20th Century Fox, and was one of three 1985 films to feature Hagerty in a starring role, the others being "Lost in America" and "Goodbye, New York".

Plot

Bad Medicine concerns a below-average medical student named Jeffrey Marx (Guttenberg) who, after being rejected by prestigious medical schools, is sent by his father (Bill Macy) to a seemingly sub-standard medical school in Central America. Jeffery eventually discovers the plight of local villagers in need of medical assistance and, with the help of fellow students (including romantic interest Hagerty), illegally provides medical services to the villagers. Eventually, the school's authoritarian dean (Arkin) discovers the students' activities, and decides to prosecute. However, the dean dismisses the charges at the urging of the villagers.

=Trivia= Trivia|date=January 2008
* Although the film is set "Somewhere in Central America," it was filmed entirely in Spain.

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