Trivia / Medicine Man

• Box Office Bomb: Budget, $40 million. Box office, $45 million.
• Hostility on the Set: Lorraine Bracco, who was just coming off GoodFellas, complained non-stop about everything from the food to the weather to the script. Bracco also came with a massive entourage (nannies, hairstylists, makeup artists, acting coach, etc). In a nutshell, she soon drove Sean Connery and the director John McTiernan insane and was loathed among the crew. At some point it was arranged that McTiernan would convey any direction he had for her to her acting coach, who would in turn pass it on to Bracco, because McTiernan refused to deal with her anymore. Connery stopped speaking to her as well.
• Star-Derailing Role: Lorraine Bracco received a Golden Raspberry Award Worst Actress nomination for her work in this film and Traces of Red in 1992. It pretty much killed her brief career as an A-lister following GoodFellas. The Sopranos rescued her from the dump years later, albeit only limited to television.
• Troubled Production: The jungle shoot was by all accounts, a nightmare.
• Working Title: The Stand.

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