Bad Medicine

Year: 1985

Runtime: 98 mins

Language: English

Director: Harvey Miller

Comedy

A satire of higher‑education absurdities, the film follows Jeff Marx, a hopeful physician whose grades are far too low for any U.S. medical school. He seizes an unexpected opportunity to enroll in a medical program in a tiny Latin‑American dictatorship ruled by the eccentric dictator Ramón Madera, who is fascinated by the conduct of his medical students.

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