Medicine Man (1992) poster
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FilmPG-131992

Medicine Man

AdventureDrama

Directed by John McTiernan

An eccentric scientist in the Amazon jungle rejects his research assistant for being a woman, but as bulldozers threaten their work on a potential cancer cure, they learn to collaborate and begin to fall in love. From TMDB

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Medicine Man is a 1992 adventure drama film, directed by John McTiernan, starring Sean Connery, Lorraine Bracco and José Wilker.

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  • Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 1, 2024

    I was 10ish and I snuck into Medicine Man, the Sean Connery action movie about hunting for new medicinal plants in the Amazon.

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  • filmsack.com @filmsack.comBluesky · Sep 7, 2025

    On this week's Film Sack Podcast, we dive into 1992's Medicine Man, with Sean Connery! You ever lose your car keys??? FEEDS, EPISODES and SITE: filmsack.com YOUTUBE: youtu.be/KzxsImDRD4Y

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  • pamela1988.bsky.social @pamela1988.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 23, 2026

    Every time I see another national park or protected animal reserve opening for drilling by Trump, after getting sick to my stomach, I remember the movie The Medicine Man. We are destroying our planet and us along with it.

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  • FanOfWalt @fanofwalt.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 25, 2024

    If you haven’t seen it before, check out the movie Medicine Man starring Sean Connery. It’s on that very topic.

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  • Spooky Surge Corwin @drsurgeonguy.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 24, 2026

    34. Mononoke Not to be confused with the Ghibli film Really great series that got movies now, love the style, like Chowder the Cartoon Network show About a traveling Medicine Man, lots of psychological/horror stuff going on with uhh... weird Trigger Warning stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TF_...

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  • Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More @realweegiemidget.eurosky.socialBluesky · Feb 9, 2025

    The #1 movie on Sunday, February 9th 1992 was: Medicine Man starring #SeanConnery ... I remember him, in this post... weegiemidget.wordpress.com/remembrances...

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  • The Astute Galoot ™️ 🏴‍☠️ @theastutegaloot.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 13, 2023

    A solution that could quite possibly put an end to the “Die Hard’s really a Christmas movie, or not” bizness: “Medicine Man” . . . is actually . . . John McTiernan’s BEST FILM, ever 🫨

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  • The Real Joyce Berry💛🐝®The Electoral College Must Go Now @jdhwriter.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 20, 2026

    What Was That Sean Connery Movie Called, Oh Yeah Medicine Man. I Have Believed They Have Had A Cure For Cancer Since This 1992 Movie Came Out. Too Much Money In Keeping Us Sick.

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  • Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 20, 2025

    GET TO KNOW ME Share: - a drink you might order - a burger you might order - a movie you love that might surprise others - Laphroaig, neat - Green chile w/ cheddar - Medicine Man

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  • Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2024

    5 Faves - I don't tag, but my mutuals are fascinating folks so I hope they'll respond! Weather: Sunny cool autumn day Birds: Cardinals, Goldfinches, Great Blue Heron Cake: Carrot or German Chocolate Holiday: Thanksgiving Movie: Casablanca, Medicine Man, Hunt For Red October

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  • slleeves 🎀 @sllevs.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 9, 2024

    A lot of you don’t have the soundtrack to the 1992 classic film “Medicine Man” starring Sean Connery and Lorraine Bracco that takes place in the Amazon Rainforest memorized still to this day because your parents played it 4000 million times on long road trips as a child and it shows.

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  • Robin Quinn 🧡🤍🩷 @robinquinn.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 29, 2024

    The Mononoke movie was basically a long episode, but very good and it was sweet to see the Medicine Man get to see something happy in the end.

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  • Hoju BOOlander @hojukoolander.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 18, 2026

    Found this movie at the thrift store yesterday and I can’t believe it wasn’t playing on TV every Saturday afternoon in the early 90s. Would have made a great double feature with Medicine Man. It’s got some fantastic chimp performances in it too. Really fun.

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  • ChaoticSequence @chaoticsequence.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 5, 2026

    Would also throw in Nomads - his first movie, which put him on the map and one of the reasons Arnie recommended him for Predator. Also, people shit on Medicine Man but I'm a forever Bracco fan. It wasn't McTiernan's best effort but it was entertaining enough.

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  • Atta' boy Luther! @jackpoe72.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 7, 2025

    And my decade watch continues with "Medicine Man" from 1992. An okay film that I recall got a lot of interest from the middle-aged "moms" thanks to Sean Connery.

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  • clear-ly.bsky.social @clear-ly.bsky.socialBluesky · May 15, 2025

    I don’t really know how to connect text to links or pictures yet, but RAM’s Stan Brock story, Medicine Man is worth the possibility of embarrassing myself www.medicinemanstanbrock.com

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  • Lattice Mindset @latticemindset.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 27, 2025

    Yep. This reminds me of the movie Medicine Man with Sean Connery.

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  • Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 2, 2024

    Using MOVIE as an acronym, recommend 5 films Medicine Man On Any Sunday Vertigo I Was A Teenage Werewolf Easy Rider (and so many others!)

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  • Chris B @cjosephbea.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 17, 2024

    Medicine Man (1992) is not good! Not offensively bad, just really not a movie that works. Not really even bad in a fun way, just sort of blandly unentertaining. Pretty good score, I guess.

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  • Conor @ernekid.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 10, 2024

    Watching Medicine Man a truly strange film that was John McTiernan's follow up to the Hunt for Red October. It's fun to say the word 'Node' in a Sean Connery voice

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  • The13thwizard @tohightaxi.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 8, 2026

    Check out the movie " Medicine Man"

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  • Gory West @bionicjazzhands.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 31, 2026

    To paraphrase Sean Connery in Medicine Man: ‘Have you ever lost anything, Doctor? Your purse? Your car keys? Your Netflix movie starring Nicolas Cage? Well, it’s rather like that: now you have it and now you don’t.’

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  • Adrian Tierney-Jones @atjbeer.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 17, 2026

    Medicine Man with Sean Connery, it was a journalists’ preview, we walked out halfway through, then there was Polanski’s Full moon Over Paris in a Soho preview theatre where noted film critics were laughing out aloud at some of the script as we were

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  • SanDeE* @phenolbarbiedoll.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 13, 2026

    Lorraine Bracco picked some interesting projects in the 90s. Like Medicine Man. There’s a line in that movie where she says “this is the cure for cancer” and the delivery is so odd that my husband and I quote it at each other all the time

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  • Something Pete Milan This Way Comes @petemilan.bsky.socialBluesky · May 14, 2026

    #FilmMusicILove Day 99. Once, o best beloved, there were places called "record stores." And film scores were not yet a niche market. So I could do see John McTiernan's 1992 misfire MEDICINE MAN, say "I really enjoyed Jerry Goldsmith's music," and go buy it! Off a shelf!

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  • Mark McGee @smackmegthermo.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 22, 2026

    The ant reminds me of the one featured in the movie Medicine Man.

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  • Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 4, 2026

    Medicine Man! Why have I seen this film?

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  • Chris Hanel @chrishanel.comBluesky · Dec 10, 2025

    I was 11 years old and my next-door neighbor invited me to his birthday party, which consisted of going to see Medicine Man in the theater. I got so bored I went to the theater's arcade mid-film. The birthday boy came out and stared me down until I came back into the theater. That kid was a dick.

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  • romeyde.bsky.social @romeyde.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 3, 2025

    In the movie Medicine Man covered recently by Film Sack, I learned that they also are the cure for cancer.

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  • Fourfoot @fourfoot.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2025

    Trying to think of the last film I saw at the Lyric in Carmarthen. I think it might have been Medicine Man with Sean Connery.

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  • Zodiac Chiller Dionysiac @thedionysiac.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 13, 2025

    I man Letterboxd could just be broken because if you look at the all time popularity ranking you can find The Truman Show (!) at number 10. Have people just lost their minds? It is like waking up and finding out that Out of Africa or Medicine Man is the most rewatched film ever. Seems so random!

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  • Antifa Snack Coordinator 💯% safe 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐈🐕 @waffa.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 5, 2025

    I found an old movie that I forgot about. Medicine Man from like 1992 with Sean Connery and Lorraine Bracca (sp?) Soooo freaking awesome

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  • Y Lee @ylee.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2025

    It's not bad, per se, but I had already seen the 1992 movie Medicine Man (with Sean Connery). Her novel came out almost two decades later, but I'm still surprised there wasn't a lawsuit or at least some criticism for the "similarities".

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  • Voder of BORG @crosis101.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 22, 2025

    Bulldozed for profits” was such a powerful fairytale they made a movie about it with Sean Connery called “Medicine Man”. It is a feeling that there has to be a cheaper was to do this, and there is, but it ain’t crystals and lavender oil.

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  • ✨🌜HookN20🌛✨ @hookn20.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 5, 2025

    Medicine Man is an excellent film!

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  • Zombie Mitch @sempersincerus.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 21, 2024

    Reminds me of the movie Medicine Man with Sean Connery.

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  • John Perschino @johnperschino.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 24, 2024

    Medicine Man, being based on a true story, was another great movie.

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  • Boo Scott👻 @bluescott.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 3, 2024

    Medicine Man is definitely a movie that exists! That's, uh, about all I can remember about it, aside from Connery's ponytail

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  • DaLetra English @[email protected]Mastodon · Oct 14, 2026

    Lyrics for the song “Medicine Man” by Dr. Dre #DrDre #MedicineMan https://daletra.com/dr-dre/lyrics/medicine-man.html

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  • DaLetra English @[email protected]Mastodon · Oct 9, 2026

    Check out the lyrics for the song “Medicine Man” by Dr. Dre #DrDre #MedicineMan https://daletra.com/dr-dre/lyrics/medicine-man.html

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  • A.D. Mikkhi Sixx @adfoozsixx.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 6, 2026

    What keeps coming to me is the movie Medicine Man. Swine flu...

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 22, 2026

    The (movie) Medicine Man 1080p (Prime)(US) $4.99 (Romance) (iMDB) 6.3 (Movies Anywhere) Cast: Sean Connery, Lorraine Bracco, José Wilker, Rodolfo De Alejandre, José Lavat, Francisco Tsiren Tsere Rereme

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  • J. Faillace @jfaillaceny.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 17, 2026

    I enjoyed Medicine Man, but didn't see it in theaters. I did see Independence Day: Resurgence in theaters, and that was the closest I've been to walking out on a movie. Okay, maybe that's tied with Rise of Skywalker as worst movie seen in a theater...

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  • Scratchbrands @scratchbrands.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 11, 2026

    The news has turned into an endless stream of 80's movies with ridiculous plots. This one is "Medicine Man" with Sean Connery and Lorraine Bracco. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kbj...

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  • mammalea.bsky.social @mammalea.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 11, 2026

    Ever watch the movie, "Medicine Man"?

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 27, 2026

    The (movie) Medicine Man (HD/HDX) (Vudu) (US) for $5 Cast: Sean Connery, Lorraine Bracco, José Wilker, Rodolfo De Alejandre, José Lavat, Francisco Tsiren Tsere Rereme Genre: (Romance) (Movies Anywhere) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1038176-me...

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  • An Anonymous User @anocelittle.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 28, 2026

    I remember seeing the Sean Connery film Medicine Man in science class.

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  • Joshua Bennett @marvbrown.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 27, 2026

    What is your favorite Sean Connery movie, and why is it Medicine Man?

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  • DaLetra English @daletraengMastodon · Nov 1, 2025

    Lyrics for the song “Medicine Man” by Dr. Dre #DrDre #MedicineMan https://daletra.com/dr-dre/lyrics/medicine-man.html

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  • charmstrange9.bsky.social @charmstrange9.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 6, 2025

    Reminds me of the movie starring another Sean: Medicine Man

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  • JR @jrdrd.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2025

    I’ve never seen this movie but I assume Sean Connery (AKA Medicine Man) flies over cities like Superman and drops medicine for the poor. #SeanConnery #MedicineMan

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  • JR 🎃 @[email protected]Mastodon · Sep 2, 2025

    I’ve never seen this movie but I assume Sean Connery (AKA Medicine Man) flies over cities like Superman and drops medicine for the poor. #SeanConnery #medicineman

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  • DarkSideRahb @darksiderahb.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 27, 2025

    Jerry Goldsmith’s name doesn’t come up as often as it should as one of the great American film composers of the last generation. Star Trek, The River Wild, The Edge, Executive Decision, The Shadow, Medicine Man, Total Recall, Innerspace, Poltergeist, Explorers! His scores made every film better!

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  • SaltyPopcorn @saltypopcornmovies.bsky.socialBluesky · May 29, 2025

    Film of the Day Medicine Man / 1992 #medicineman Director: John McTiernan - Starring: Sean Connery, Lorraine Bracco and Jose Wilker www.saltypopcorn.co.uk/movies/medic...

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  • DaLetra English @[email protected]Mastodon · May 5, 2025

    Lyrics for the song “Medicine Man” by Dr. Dre #DrDre #MedicineMan https://daletra.com/dr-dre/lyrics/medicine-man.html

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  • Ben Jeddrie, yeah? @zyblonius.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 19, 2025

    So yeah. John McTiernan. I realized recently that the clear high point of his career was a simple 3 movie run: Predator, Die Hard, Hunt For Red October. Straight bangers. Then, Medicine Man - largely forgotten! Connery had a ponytail, that's all I know.

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  • “Sic Semper Tyrannis” @saram853.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 13, 2025

    with trump significantly reducing funding for cancer research AND opening up nearly 60% of U.S. national forests for TIMBER production, affecting OVER 112 MILLION acres of land, a good time to find and watch 1992's "Medicine Man" Medicine Man (1992) Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kbj...

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  • DaLetra English @[email protected]Mastodon · Apr 8, 2025

    Lyrics for the song “Medicine Man” by Dr. Dre #DrDre #MedicineMan https://daletra.com/dr-dre/lyrics/medicine-man.html

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  • Midoriya Shoton @phantomrenlei.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 4, 2025

    Remember watching this film. At a very young age with my parents when it first came out in theaters. "Medicine Man" is such an underrated film that doesn't get enough recognition. #MedicineMan

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  • Sam, back on my bullshit @samwise42.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 28, 2025

    Well, if that movie Medicine Man (with Sean Connery) is any indication, you won’t get cancer anytime soon 🥴

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