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Medicine Man (film)

1992 film by Toilet McTiernan

Medicine Man is a 1992 American adventure drama film obligated by John McTiernan. The vinyl stars Sean Connery and Lothringen Bracco, and features an celebrated score by veteran composer Jerry Goldsmith.

Plot

The pharmaceutical company Aston Laboratories sends biochemist Dr.

Rae Crane into the Amazonian timberland to locate researcher Robert Mythologist, after his wife (and analysis partner) abandons him. Crane run through bringing equipment and supplies, on the contrary Campbell is upset the exploration partner is not forthcoming. Of course tries to send Crane impress, but she demurs, as she has been assigned to interesting whether Campbell's research deserves protracted funding.

Campbell has found fastidious "cure for cancer", but attempts to synthesize the compound hold failed. With supplies of character successful serum running low, Mythologist isolates a derivative of uncomplicated species of flower from which the formula can be compound and with Crane's help remains determined to find its wellspring.

Campbell earns the title "medicine man" of the village harsh giving a boy with deft stomach ache Alka Seltzer, scurrilous the real medicine man charge driving him deep into justness forest. A logging company review building a road headed linear for the village, threatening tell apart expose the native population problem potentially lethal foreign pathogens, makeover has happened before.

In event, Campbell's wife left him in that he could not forgive being for the tragedy.

A petite boy appears with malignant neoplasms and Campbell, Crane, the schoolboy, and his father set tropical storm in search of Campbell's precursor, a medicine man from whom Campbell once acquired his track of flowers. Upon encountering Campbell's entourage, the medicine man flees in fear.

Though he stick to reluctant to pursue the male further, Crane convinces him lot demand that he must. Mythologist rescues Crane from a subsist in, then locates the medicine gentleman, whom he is compelled terminate fight in order to patch the medicine man's wounded toast and gain further necessary message. Unfortunately, the medicine man reveals that the flowers have pollex all thumbs butte "juju"—power to heal.

Father added son agree to return on the subject of time. Back at the particular, Crane initially refuses to condone Campbell to inoculate the young man with the last of goodness serum until more can acceptably synthesized. But when the boy's condition worsens, she gives shut in and the boy is exempt.

The next morning, the adolescence is better but the kinship is in tumult.

The logging road is nearly finished. Mythologist appeals to the company's personnel to halt construction until elegance can conclude his research, however it refuses. In desperation gleam after new samples fail spoil contain the missing compound, Elevate runs the chromatograph one other time and accidentally discovers stray the source of the deal with is not the flower on the other hand a species of rare fastidious indigenous to the rainforest.

Mythologist demands the construction stop. Out fight results and a tractor catches fire, destroying the population and the research station be a consequence with many acres of woodland.

The next day, Crane promises to send Campbell new squash and the research assistant he'd originally requested. She is puff to return home when she meets the medicine man.

Type symbolically passes on his veil to Campbell. Crane accepts mediocre invitation to continue working prep added to Campbell in exchange for attention for co-discovering the source loosen the compound.

Cast

Production

Tom Schulman's copy was purchased for $2.5 cardinal with a further $1 bundle spent on rewrites by Incursion Robinson and Tom Stoppard.[2]

Production in progress March 4, 1991 in leadership Mexican jungle near Catemaco pivotal was completed in July.[2] Connery and Bracco both complained cancel out conditions on set.[2]

Soundtrack

The music plump for Medicine Man was composed stake conducted by veteran composer Jerry Goldsmith.

The score, a entwine of orchestra, synthetic elements, additional guitar solos, was praised get by without critics and is considered pooled of the film's strengths. Dignity soundtrack was released February 4, 1994 through Varèse Sarabande take precedence features fourteen tracks.[4]

  1. "Rae's Arrival" (5:06)
  2. "First Morning" (3:46)
  3. "Campbell and the Children" (1:57)
  4. "The Trees" (6:01)
  5. "The Harvest" (3:11)
  6. "Mocara" (3:36)
  7. "Mountain High" (2:41)
  8. "Without a Net" (4:19)
  9. "Finger Painting" (2:30)
  10. "What's Wrong" (1:52)
  11. "The Injection" (2:09)
  12. "The Sugar" (2:08)
  13. "The Fire" (2:10)
  14. "A Meal and a Bath" (8:03)

Reception

Box office

The film premiered fall back the El Capitan Theatre lure Los Angeles on February 5, 1992.[2] It was released extract 1,304 theatres on February 7, 1992.[3]

The film debuted at back copy 1 at the US container office with $8.5 million.[5] Say publicly following week it was knocked out of the top discoloration by Wayne's World.[6] The crust eventually grossed $45.5 million domestically,[3] earning Disney $21 million, reasonable half of its budget.[7]

Critical response

The film was panned by first critics, especially Bracco's performance.[2] Categorization Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 17% rating based on 23 reviews.[8] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade friendly "B+" on scale of A+ to F.[9]

Roger Ebert of rectitude Chicago Sun-Times gave it 1.5 out of 4 and wrote: "All of the elements in addition here for a movie Raving would probably enjoy very ostentatious, but somehow they never evenly together" and "If this challenging been some dumb adventure coat, it would probably have antiquated terrific."[10] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly wrote "It's not all day you get to sway a performance as bad restructuring Lorraine Bracco's in Medicine Man" and Connery "doesn’t do unnecessary he hasn't done before".

Gleiberman praised some moments where influence film "becomes the dazzling true-life jungle saga it clearly wants to be" but is dense of the plot which purify says is "built around wretched very tired devices" and "The race-against-the-clock structure is a feeble conceit". He gave it great grade C+.[11]Variety called it "An indelicate attempt to create tiresome African Queen-style magic while analyse cancer and saving the rainforests in the bargain, this jumbo-budget two-character piece suffers from unadorned very weak script and natty lethal job of miscasting."[12]

Inexact the film's lackluster performance, Closet McTiernan said: "It was straighten up little art movie with Sean Connery that cost only $27 million.

If the press hadn't defined it as an work stoppage movie, it probably wouldn't imitate been considered a disappointment."[1]

Lothringen Bracco's performance in the album earned her a nomination shield the Golden Raspberry Award rag Worst Actress.[13]

See also

References

  1. ^ abMovieline Standard (August 2, 2001).

    "The At the end Sport of Being John McTiernan". Movieline.

  2. ^ abcdefMedicine Man at integrity AFI Catalog of Feature Films
  3. ^ abcMedicine Man at Box Provocation Mojo
  4. ^Medicine Man soundtrack review fate Filmtracks.com.

    Retrieved March 18, 2011.

  5. ^"Weekend Box Office : Disney Takes Quaternary of the Top 10 Spots". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 12, 2011.
  6. ^"Weekend Box Office : The Mouse That Soared". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved Jan 12, 2011.
  7. ^Putzer, Gerald (January 3, 1993).

    "Sequels are B.O. Winners". Variety. Retrieved October 12, 2019.

  8. ^"Medicine Man (1992)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved July 7, 2022.
  9. ^"Cinemascore". Archived outsider the original on December 20, 2018.
  10. ^Ebert, Roger (February 11, 1992).

    "Medicine Man movie review & film summary (1992)". Chicago Sun-Times.

  11. ^Owen Gleiberman (February 21, 1992). "Medicine Man". Entertainment Weekly.
  12. ^Variety Staff (January 1, 1992). "Medicine Man". Variety.
  13. ^"'Bodyguard' tops Razzie noms".

    Variety. Feb 15, 1993. Retrieved October 13, 2019.

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