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Bad Medicine (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
93 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1985 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Harvey Miller

Written By:
Steven Horowitz
Neil Offen

Actors:
Steve Guttenberg ..... Jeff Marx
Alan Arkin ..... Dr. Ramón Madera
Julie Hagerty ..... Liz Parker
Bill Macy ..... Dr. Gerald Marx
Curtis Armstrong ..... Dennis Gladstone
Julie Kavner ..... Cookie Katz
Joe Grifasi ..... Gómez
Robert Romanus ..... Carlos
Taylor Negron ..... Pepe the Cab Driver
Candi Milo ..... María Morales
Gilbert Gottfried ..... Tony Sandoval
Arturo Venegas ..... Jesús the Gunman
Arne Gordon ..... Bruno the Witch Doctor
Manuel Pereiro ..... Dr. Miguel Cervantes
Eileen Way ..... Sra. Madera, Ramon's Mother

Synopsis:

Below-average pre-medical student Jeffrey Marx (Guttenberg), after being rejected by prestigious medical schools, is sent by his father (Bill Macy) to a seemingly sub-standard medical school in Central America. Jeffrey eventually discovers the plight of local villagers in need of medical assistance. With the help of fellow students (including romantic interest Hagerty), he 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.

The story, based on ''Calling Dr. Horowitz,'' a novel by Steven Horowitz and Neil Offen, is about an American at a medical school ''somewhere in Central America.'' To this school, Madera Universidad de Medicina, a combination slum tenement and basic training camp (established 1980), comes Jeff Marx (Steve Guttenberg). Jeff has to go to medical school because everybody in his humorless family is a doctor, but no school in the United States wants him. Madera may not be Harvard, ''but the degree is real.''

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 he 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.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 30 March, 2012.