After a massive apparencies at Academy exploitation pictures made strong damages on Steve Guttenberg's career as dramatic actor, he shone in Boys from Brazil and to accept Police Academy runs to stigmatized actor henceforth, although Bad Medicine follows the same premise it somehow is slight different due it took place at south America country, the companion of the versatile actor Alan Arkin relief the critics a little bit, the screenplay suggest a black humor oriented concerning Alan Arkin's mother in the movie alluding a possible inces.tuous relationship carried out by his possessive mother in nasty way.
The story takes place on a small town somewhere in Latin South America, (Shot in Spain) a poor country non specified, Jeff Marx (Steve Guttenberg) was sent there due he is in a quandary on America high patten's Universities, a bit faltering about be a doctor pushed by his famous doctor father, on there he meets with an American weird girl Liz Parker (Julie Hagerty) and also American Dennis Gladstone (Curtis Armstrong from Police Academy neither), they are dealing with a rough Spanish rector Dr. Ramón Madera (Alan Arkin) recently widowed who falling in love of younger Liz Parker, causing some distress on the new couple Liz & Jeff on flirting, due the higher local poverty they steal the University's medical supplies to aid the poor people's illnesses.
The picture touches in several neuralgic points on Latin America's background as the figure of Xama as spiritual cure, also highly widespread of sexually transmitted deceases on jail on facetious way, rising many laughs fro the audience, overall a fine entertainment regarding the old costumes of a Spanish country, Alan Arkin had a stunning performance as tyrannic owner of University, far away to be bad as some reviewers want implied.
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First watch: 2023 / How many: 1 / Source: Youtube / Rating: 6.
The story takes place on a small town somewhere in Latin South America, (Shot in Spain) a poor country non specified, Jeff Marx (Steve Guttenberg) was sent there due he is in a quandary on America high patten's Universities, a bit faltering about be a doctor pushed by his famous doctor father, on there he meets with an American weird girl Liz Parker (Julie Hagerty) and also American Dennis Gladstone (Curtis Armstrong from Police Academy neither), they are dealing with a rough Spanish rector Dr. Ramón Madera (Alan Arkin) recently widowed who falling in love of younger Liz Parker, causing some distress on the new couple Liz & Jeff on flirting, due the higher local poverty they steal the University's medical supplies to aid the poor people's illnesses.
The picture touches in several neuralgic points on Latin America's background as the figure of Xama as spiritual cure, also highly widespread of sexually transmitted deceases on jail on facetious way, rising many laughs fro the audience, overall a fine entertainment regarding the old costumes of a Spanish country, Alan Arkin had a stunning performance as tyrannic owner of University, far away to be bad as some reviewers want implied.
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First watch: 2023 / How many: 1 / Source: Youtube / Rating: 6.