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Oh hi,
This week on FilmSack, you ever lose your car keys… in Mexico-Brazil? First we take a big plane, then we take a little plane (oh fire), we take a safari bus (oh deforestation), we take a loaded down Jack Ass… (oh maybe I’m the jackass? or maybe that is just Indigenous drugs talking) , we take a foot trip (with a toothless Indian? yeah, I’m the Jack Ass), we take a leaky boat… Hey, INDIAN where’d you go? INDIAN! you ever lose your Indian? perhaps the MEDICINE MAN knows, I heard he was wandering around the Amazon (not the Rainforest, the streaming service) like an old cranky man with a pony tail cursed with bad Juju muttering about peak 37… hey local guy… put on some pants… I’m getting more man cheek than I bargained for.
Anywho, So my cancer free indigenous husband says… “let’s make oversized dried grass hats to obscure our vision, then get drunk on locally fermented spit wine made from canopy flowers and spittle, then dance around an open flame and pray to the Brazilian ant gods that the rain puts out our burning man cheeks before we die.” and so I said… get me my spitting bucket we about to scare us some white folks.
Randy, they have never seen a virgin of your maturity. ZING!
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BRIEF
Dr. Robert Campbell (Sean Connery), a reclusive biochemist in the Amazon, may have discovered a flower-based cure for cancer—but he can’t replicate it. The pharmaceutical company sends Dr. Rae Crane (Lorraine Bracco) to evaluate the project’s viability. As they race to reproduce the serum, they must also fend off logging interests threatening to destroy the jungle and the cure with it.
1992 | Rated PG-13 | Adventure/Drama/Romance | 1h 46m
LINKS
IMDB: Medicine Man (1992)
Wikipedia: Medicine Man Wiki
Rotten Tomatoes: RT Page
TV Tropes: Medicine Man Tropes
WHERE TO WATCH
Streaming: Check availability on JustWatch
TRAILER/CLIPS
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Medicine Man (1992) – Like FernGully meets should have said Dr. No… I FOUND THE CURE! But the ants ate it. #ThisMovieIsABummer
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SHOW NOTES
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- Some Steel drums please.
- Hello American… we are so glad to see you… in our 3rd world country. Aston… Industries.
- Planes… big and small…
- Brazilian Fire! Deforestation… who made this movie? Tree Huggers?
- Am I watching Fern Gulley?
- “The Foundation for whom I work… supports a botanist…. Once of note….”
- Deeper into the bush after his divorce…. and research partner… last month… the first time in 3 years.
- I want an assistant and a gas chromatograph… …
- Surprised they sent a woman… for this turd.
- Big Plane… Small Plane… Safari Truck… Jack Ass… I’m the Jack Ass… BOAT! play the steel drums as I walk through the rain forest… ooohh.. that is why they call it the rain forest… the rain..
- This is a lot of trekking… and when you lose your Indian… you yell “Indian.”
- What is this… some kind of … thing..
- Who the hell are you? … dunno grass hut man.
- They sent a girl… and I’m a research assistant.
- Where is your mask?… not for you… them.. the people… you careless hussy.
- Not for me you hussy… what about your shots?
- He is as prickly as his grassy dancing hat.
- Where am I going to sleep? Well.. of course… please forgive me. The ground… duh…
- Back off Tonto.
- Drunk… intoxicated.. yes.
- I forgot women like to carry their own.
- You are not 1 of 3 men.
- She has done very little field research.
- I heard about your wife.
- … Randy, … and a bath.
- Randy, You want to bathe in their water supply… you need an examination. wait… are these boobs ya hussy
- Did you run a baseline? Moron… use the glucose… why did you unpack my stuff.
- Oh full marks. Synth? Mother Nature’s Kitchen.
- You said… breakfast and a shower.
- Last year’s chromatograph.
- 49 compounds… Nearly all identifiable.
- I’m your judge and jury.
- So here I am… wandering around in circles in the rain.
- Good god woman… must everything be a full scale debate with you.
- Doctor Mangala with a pony tail.
- Let’s give them Rainforest Rats
- Alka Seltzer took the Medicine Man’s stick… now I am the Medicine Man!
- Sleep in the hammock I will sleep in the greenhouse.
- I thought I would just call you Brooklyn… Bronx ya turd.
- Because she not like you much. The locals like giving him the business.
- You found the cure for cancer and all you can say is “I know”
- I came here 6 years ago… Tribe with no cancer.
- Snuff and stuff… Just one flower.
- I can’t reproduce….
- You ever lost your car keys? I lost the cure to cancer!
- Let’s bring in a team… they will kill everyone.
- Much regret… so sorry.
- Lets head up to the Canopy!!
- Dr. Bronx… cause he never misses a chance to dig in.
- Too many fund raisers… not enough time in the field.
- Be one with nature and the people…
- You earned 1 week for your canopy ride.
- We can’t recreate it… only nature has it… and if we don’t stop… we gonna lose it…
- The road is coming… less rain forest… less rain.
- Love this music… and when they are not preaching to us… I’m having a good time.
- Bad form to talk about death over a dead man.
- Peak 37… maybe you used a dirty test tube.
- Always some nosey little indigenous kid following around the
- Randy, I have never seen a virgin of your maturity.
- She is marrying an old man… no wait… it was his son.
- Oh my gawd… Spit alcohol…. he is always drinks it… put that shit in there. Gross Scott
- Its in the people.
- Research is the process of elimination.
- Just go ask the old medicine man.
- Acupado.
- Randy, it’s not a bad idea to keep your nickers on.
- The Swine Flu epidemic. Forbidden Juju magic… shared with the eager beaver.
- He brought the Swine Flu… It is his shame. Mokara 1981… the sketch horrors journal
- Sorry for the Alka-Seltzer
- The universe keeps tossing this guy ethical questions.
- Now do I fix 1 kid or save all the world.
- “Oh man.. they don’t spit in this one did they?”
- She is still trying to market the rain forest.
- Trust fall with Sean Connery
- White folks always taking spiritual journeys on the indigenous drink and smoke.
- He say “He is born of the monkey… ” He says “He has no father”…
- No Juju in flower… only house for bugs
- I feel the percentage of man cheek is too high.
- Get drunk somewhere else…
- The world is not one choking boy.
- He wouldn’t forgive himself…. she didn’t want to end up like him. So she gave the serum.
- The Smoke is coming… we saved the kid… but the smoke… it is here.
- Danger is just around the Riverbend!
- Miracle without proof
- We upped the timeline on our road… the road must progress..
- You promised me a week… you gave me a week. Get out of here before the road gets you.
- You don’t smoke do you?
- Bug house! The cure is in the bugs! He ground up a bug the first time! The cure is in the bug!…. also, don’t eat that sugar!!
- Good news is that the Ant may be easier to grow than the durn plant.
- Problem solved… Burn down the rainforest.
- Man… you think he couldn’t forgive himself before… This dude is on a mission to kill all the indigenous peoples of the world. Intentionally or unintentionally.
- Dude… this movie is a bummer.
- of course… burn down the rainforest. Why didn’t we think of that..
- It was the ants.
- The small medicine man… .. you mean the one that drew this thing on my forehead? Give me that golf club.
- He found his cigarette finally.
- He said… no… that is what she said…. but couldn’t say.
- Something blue on her forehead.
- What do you want? A meal and a bath.
- He lost a wife and a partner… now he has replaced both.
- Life is strange… but down here it seems precious.
- Sean Connery, forever rocking pseudo-scientific charisma in the rainforest
- “Medicine Man” title: literal, please don’t read psychological meaning in this
- Jungle cinematography is a character of its own—luscious, green, wild
- Campbell curing a kid with Alka-Seltzer = 90s medicine, baby
- Bracco’s “Bronx biochemist” is a classic rival-turned-romantic trope
- Environmental urgency vs. pharma ambition = tension worth discussing
- Logger bad guys: sneering capitalists with chain saws and bad ’dos
- Score by Jerry Goldsmith: always the icing on the Amazon cake
- The “can’t replicate the cure” trope: drama device or symptom of screenwriting laziness?
- Rom-com beats hiding behind “cancer cure stakes.” Connery and Bracco chemistry is earnest—even if over the top
- “Skip the report, let’s run into trouble” vibes
- Predictable plot, but adventuresome tone saves it—some Reddit defenders call it “earnest and naive”
- Loggers = real-world rainforest destruction hits way too close to home
- Overt sexism in the dynamic is ripe for commentary today
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