Medicine Man (film)
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| Directed by | John McTiernan |
| Produced by | Donna Dubrow Andrew G. Vajna Sean Connery |
| Written by |
Tom Schulman Sally Robinson |
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| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Cinematography | Donald McAlpine |
| Edited by |
Mary Jo Markey Michael R. Miller |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
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106 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $40 million |
| Box office | $45,500,797 |
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| Film score by Jerry Goldsmith | |
| Released | February 4, 1994 |
| Recorded | 1994 |
| Genre | Soundtrack |
| Length | 50:09 |
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Medicine Man is a 1992 American romantic adventure film directed by American action director John McTiernan. The film stars Sean Connery and Lorraine Bracco, and features an acclaimed score by veteran composer Jerry Goldsmith.
A pharmaceutical company sends biochemist Dr. Rae Crane (Bracco) into the Amazonian rainforest to locate researcher Robert Campbell (Connery), after his wife and research partner abandon him. Crane is bringing equipment and supplies, but Campbell is upset the research partner is not forthcoming. He tries to send Crane home, but she demurs, as she has been assigned to determine whether Campbell's research deserves continued funding.
Campbell has found a "cure for cancer", but attempts to synthesize the compound have failed. With supplies of the successful serum running low, Campbell isolates a derivative of a species of flower from which the formula can be synthesized and with Crane's help is determined to find its source. A logging company is building a road headed straight for the village, threatening to expose the native population to potentially lethal foreign pathogens, as has happened before. In fact, Campbell's wife left him because he could not forgive himself for the tragedy.
A small boy appears with malignant neoplasms and Campbell, Crane, the boy, and his father set out in search of Campbell's predecessor, a medicine man from whom Campbell once acquired his knowledge of flowers. Upon encountering Campbell's entourage, the medicine man flees in fear. Though he is reluctant to pursue the man further, Crane convinces him circumstances demand that he must. Campbell rescues Crane from a fall, then locates the medicine man, whom he is compelled to fight in order to heal the medicine man's wounded pride and gain further necessary information. Unfortunately, the medicine man reveals that the flowers have no "juju"—power to heal. Father and son agree to return another time. Back at the village, Crane initially refuses to allow Campbell to inoculate the boy with the last of the serum until more can be synthesized. But when the boy's condition worsens, she gives in and the boy is inoculated.
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