Sean Connery Interview on "Medicine Man" (February 8, 1992)

Medicine Man is a 1992 American adventure drama film directed by John McTiernan. The film stars Sean Connery and Lorraine Bracco, and features an acclaimed score by veteran composer Jerry Goldsmith.
Cast
Sean Connery as Dr. Robert Campbell
Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Rae Crane
José Wilker as Dr. Miguel Ornega
José Lavat as Government Man
Production
Tom Schulman's script was purchased for $2.5 million with a further $1 million spent on rewrites by Sally Robinson and Tom Stoppard.[2]
Production started March 4, 1991 in the Mexican jungle near Catemaco and was completed in July.[2] Connery and Bracco both complained of conditions on set.[2]
Soundtrack
Medicine Man
Film score by Jerry Goldsmith
Released February 4, 1994
Recorded 1994
Genre Soundtrack
Length 50:09
The music for Medicine Man was composed and conducted by veteran composer Jerry Goldsmith. The score, a blend of orchestra, synthetic elements, and guitar solos, was praised by critics and is considered one of the film's strengths. The soundtrack was released February 4, 1994 through Varèse Sarabande and features fourteen tracks.[4]
The film was panned by most critics, especially Bracco's performance.[2] On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 17% rating based on 23 reviews.[8] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade of "B+" on scale of A+ to F.[9]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it 1.5 out of 4 and wrote: "All of the elements are here for a movie I would probably enjoy very much, but somehow they never come together" and "If this had been some dumb adventure movie, it would probably have been terrific."[10] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly wrote "It's not every day you get to see a performance as bad as Lorraine Bracco's in Medicine Man" and Connery "doesn’t do much he hasn't done before". Gleiberman praised some moments where the film "becomes the dazzling true-life jungle saga it clearly wants to be" but is critical of the plot which he says is "built around some very tired devices" and "The race-against-the-clock structure is a flimsy conceit". He gave it a grade C+.[11] Variety called it "An indelicate attempt to create some African Queen-style magic while curing cancer and saving the rainforests in the bargain, this jumbo-budget two-character piece suffers from a very weak script and a lethal job of miscasting."[12]
About the film's lackluster performance, John McTiernan said: "It was a little art movie with Sean Connery that cost only $27 million. If the press hadn't defined it as an action movie, it probably wouldn't have been considered a disappointment."[1]
Lorraine Bracco's performance in the film earned her a nomination for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress.[13]
Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born Thomas Connery; 25 August 1930 - 31 October 2020) was a Scottish actor. He was the first actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond on film, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983.[1][2][3] Connery originated the role in Dr. No (1962) and continued starring as Bond in the Eon Productions From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), and Diamonds Are Forever (1971). Connery made his final appearance in Never Say Never Again (1983), a non-Eon-produced Bond film.
He is also known for his notable collaborations with directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Lumet and John Huston. Their films in which Connery appeared included Marnie (1964), The Hill (1965), The Offence (1973), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), and The Man Who Would Be King (1975). He also acted in Robin and Marian (1976), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Time Bandits (1981), Highlander (1986), The Name of the Rose (1986), The Untouchables (1987), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Dragonheart (1996), The Rock (1996), and Finding Forrester (2000). His final on-screen role was as Allan Quatermain in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003).
Connery received numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and an Academy Award, the first Scottish actor to win the lattermost achievement.[citation needed] He also received honorary awards such as the Cecil B. DeMille Award In 1987, the BAFTA Fellowship in 1998, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 1999. He was made a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in France, was made a knight by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to drama in 2000.[4]

[@ejseabury]

I love this movie. I still have the soundtrack on CD.

[@Militaria_Collector]

I watched it for the first time around 1995 with my grandma and I have liked it since then