Bad Medicine
1985
Action / Comedy

Bad Medicine
1985
Action / Comedy
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.
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Bad Medicine, no kidding. The movie could use a shot, too.
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.