Paramedics (film)

Paramedics
Paramedics
Directed by	Stuart Margolin
Written by	Barry Bardo; Richard Kriegsman
Produced by	Leslie Greif
Starring	George Newbern; Christopher McDonald
Cinematography	Michael W. Watkins
Edited by	Allan A. Moore
Music by	Murray MacLeod
Distributed by	Vestron Pictures
Release date	June 1988
Running time	90 min
Country	United States
Language	English

Paramedics is a 1988 comedy film starring George Newbern and Christopher McDonald.

Plot[]

When this group of rowdy and raunchy, laid-back medics are transferred from their cushy uptown district to the rough south-end, they find plenty of trouble when they discover the tough guys are playing a "corpses-for-dollars" scam and they want to crack the case. Mad Mike and Uptown, having been sent to the new district by their boss, Capt. Prescott, as a form of punishment, soon discover that two paramedics are working with gang members in order to provide dead bodies, which would be harvested for organs to be sold on the Black Market. So they decide to bring down the black market and their old boss, who has nothing to do with the black market, but has ended up their boss again in the South District. All of this Uptown is dealing with his girlfriend, Savannah, who wants him to focus and go to med school, and Mad Mike, who is smitten with a French woman (Liette), who is transporting a heart from France that is needed for a transplant.

There is a subplot about a mystery woman named "Danger Girl" who seduces her lovers to the point they meet with bizarre accidents, as was the case of the judge who had a near fatal heart attack and a man who drove his car into a water fountain. At the end of the film, she meets up with Capt. Prescott, who much to his chagrin, has been named Captain of the South District, on the recommendation of heroes Uptown and Made Mike, who receive special recognition for breaking up the black market scheme.

Cast[]

George Newbern as Uptown
Christopher McDonald as Mad Mike
John P. Ryan as Captain Prescott
James Noble as Chief Wilkins
John Pleshette as Doctor Lido
as Savannah
Lydie Denier as Liette
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs as Blade Runner
Karen Witter as Danger Girl
Ray Walston as Heart Attack Patient
Leigh Hamilton as Despatcher #
as Breedlove
as White
as Nurse Helms
as Lt. Holcomb

Though Leigh Hamilton played the role of the Despatcher, her voice was overdubbed by Sally Kellerman

DVD release[]

Lions Gate Home Entertainment has not announced any current plans to release the film onto DVD.

External links[]

Paramedics at IMDb
Paramedics at Rotten Tomatoes

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