Bad Medicine

Synopsis: 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 instead he gets a chance to study medicine abroad, in a small Latin American dictatorship, governed by the dictator Ramon Madera, who fall in love with Jeff's girlfriend, also a medical student.

Genre: Comedy

Director(s): Harvey Miller

Actors: Steve Guttenberg, Alan Arkin, Julie Hagerty, Bill Macy

Production: Fox


IMDB:: 4.4

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: PG-13
Year:: 1985
: 98 min
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You seem worried,
Mr. Marx.
No, sir. I'm not worried
at all, sir.
Ok. Let's check
your application.
Your father's
a doctor.
Yes, sir.
He's a plastic sur...
Reconstructive surgeon.
Gerald Marx.
Mass general.
Top man.
Your mother, also.
Mom's a psychiatrist.
Your sister, too?
She's on staff at
the children's hospital.
Good.
Excellent genes.
Let's see how
your grades stack up.
86 average.
How did you
get in here?
Please, sir, no.
We require a 95,
Mr. Marx.
Fall semester we're
admitting two boys
Who are perfect 100s.
Two perfect boys. Come on.
So I'm not
a perfect boy,
But I'm not
Quasimodo, either.
Don't take it
personally, nitwit.
Every year
50,000 students
Apply
to medical school.
There's only room
for 15,000.
You don't understand.
You've got to accept me.
My parents will be destroyed.
They're counting on me
to be the next dr. Marx!
Who gives a shit?
We can't have
second-Class minds
Running around
in smocks.
Being a doctor
requires the ability
To make life
and death decisions.
Life and death.
You want life and death?
I'll show you
life and death.
Mr. Marx! Mr. Marx!
I'll show you life and death!
What are you
doing?
I'll show you...
Help!
Mr. Jeffrey.
Aah!
Ahh!
It's dinnertime,
Mr. Jeffrey.
How could
this happen?
It's over.
The legacy is dead.
It's not too late
to have another child.
Was that remark
supposed to be amusing?
You think it's amusing
That you've been
turned down
By every medical school
in the united states!
A sense of humor
is a wonderful tool, Jeff,
But I for one don't know
any funny physicians.
His problem is
That he doesn't take
anything seriously.
Because he doesn't take
himself seriously.
Phone call,
dr. Gerald.
Long distance.
You know what
your problem is, kid?
You've got...
you've got no drive,
no ambition,
No passion
for anything.
What happened, Jeff?
We know
you have the brains.
It takes extraordinary
will and desire
To become a doctor, Jeff.
Maybe you don't
want a medical career.
Is that it?
You have a choice, you know.
Like prince Charles
has a choice.
Stop avoiding, Jeff.
You want to be
a doctor or not?
You can
tell me the truth.
No.
Ahh.
Are you all right,
mother?
Mon, who knows? Maybe there's
something else I want to do.
I don't know. I never
dared think about it.
All my life you
expected me to be a doctor.
For my fifth birthday
I begged you for a fire engine.
You gave me an ambulance.
Do you understand
what I'm saying?
I never had a choice.
I did it!
I found a school
that will take him!
He made it!
We can all relax.
That's wonderful.
It's the luckiest
day in our life.
See, Jeff?
It was meant to be.
Yuh... um.
Yeah, uh, great.
Great, dad.
Good job. Excellent.
Where, Miami?
Farther south.
South of Miami?
It's gonna cost me
an arm and a leg,
But you'll have
a degree in four years.
South of Miami?
Ladies and gentlemen,
we have landed in San Vicente.
Please remain seated
until the pilot
Brings the plane
to a complete stop.
Momemto.
Hey!
Hey!
Stay away from him!
I told you guys
those Americans are mine.
Come with Pepe.
Stay away from those
guys. They're robbers.
They take you miles
out of your way
And they'll
charge you double.
Me? I'll take you
right where you're going
For the same price.
Thanks!
Is this Valencia?
No, no.
This is the suburb,
Valencia heights.
It's more expensive
to live out here
But you get
what you pay for.
I'm telling you,
Valencia's got everything
you'd possibly want...
Theaters, restaurants.
You like to eat?
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