Bad Medicine (film)

Bad Medicine
Promotional movie poster for the film
Directed byHarvey Miller
Written byHarvey Miller
Produced byArlene Sellers
Alex Winitsky
Starring
CinematographyKelvin Pike
Edited byO. Nicholas Brown
John Jympson
Keith Palmer
Music byLalo Schifrin
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • November 22, 1985 (1985-11-22)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$8 million[1]
Box office$2,685,453 (USA) (sub-total)

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 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.

  1. ^ "AFI|Catalog".