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Released
1992 · FILM

Medicine Man

An eccentric Amazonian biochemist races to isolate a groundbreaking cancer cure before relentless bulldozers destroy his rainforest lab, forcing him to team up with—and eventually trust—a skeptical female assistant whose partnership becomes the key to both survival and love.

“He turned his back on civilization. Only to discover he had the power to save it.”

Directed by
John Mctiernan
Written by
Tom Schulman, Sally Robinson
Runtime
106 min
AdventureDramaRomance
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

An eccentric scientist working in the Amazon jungle initially rejects his research assistant because she is a woman. However, as bulldozers threaten their research on a potential cancer cure, they learn to work together and gradually develop feelings for each other.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Michael R MillerShot by Donald McalpineScored by Jerry GoldsmithDesigned by John Krenz Reinhart Jr

Box Office

1992 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$45.5M

Budget$40.0M
Worldwide gross$45.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $8.5M — 19% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $10.8M — 24% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,304 theaters

Also known as

  • Medicine Man - Die letzten Tage von Edende
  • Mato Grossoit

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