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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. Mike "Mad Mike" and "Uptown", having been sent to the new district by their boss, Captain 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 Captain Prescott, who much to his chagrin, has been named Deputy Chief of the South District, on the recommendation of heroes Uptown and Mad Mike, who receive special recognition for breaking up the black market scheme.
Cast
George Newbern as "Uptown"
Christopher McDonald as Mike "Mad Mike"
John P. Ryan as Captain Prescott
James Noble as Chief Wilkins
John Pleshette as Dr. Lido
Elaine Wilkes 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[a]
Peter Isackson as Breedlove
Eric Boardman as White
Lisa Applewhite as Nurse Helms
Helanie Lembeck as Lieutenant Holcomb
Bill Johnson as Caesar "Big Caesar"
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 3, 1988
Running time 90 min
Country United States
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