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Bad Medicine (1985)

Bad Medicine poster
Directed by
Harvey Miller
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 38m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
5.1 of 10 from 40 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A medical student fails his exams and ends up in a chaotic Central American medical school. He has to deal with eccentric characters and cultural misunderstandings while trying to get his degree.

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What happens

Bad Medicine is a 1985 American comedy film starring Steve Guttenberg, Alan Arkin and Julie Hagerty. The film was written and directed by Harvey Miller, and was based on the 1977 novel Calling Dr. Horowitz, by Steven Horowitz, MD and Neil Offen. The film was criticized for its negative ethnic stereotypes. Although the film is set "Somewhere in Central America," it was filmed entirely in Spain. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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