Medicine Man, it’s Connery…movie review

by Richard Subber | Jun 18, 2024 | Human Nature, Theater and play reviews

jungle story

Movie review:

Medicine Man

1992

PG-13

106 min

Medicine Man is a completely predictable story about a man and a woman chasing each other as they close in on finding a cure for cancer in the deep jungle. You can guess how it ends.

The real treasure of Medicine Man is watching Sean Connery create the very believable Dr. Robert Campbell character: a quirky, endlessly earnest, and somewhat sloppy bachelor who gets a bit mixed up when Dr. Rae Crane (Lorraine Bracco) shows up in his jungle laboratory to be his assistant.

Campbell has discovered—and mysteriously lost—the chemical component of a cure for cancer. Crane wants to help him find it again, but she’s “a girl” and that complicates the quest.

Campbell can’t escape the private and professional windmills that he fruitlessly charges, repeatedly. Crane very gradually realizes that adapting to a humanitarian mission in the deep jungle is not completely out of the question.

At the end, they’re happy about the way things turn out.

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