Intern Academy (2004)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Dave Thomas

Writer:

Dave Thomas (writer)

Release Date:

10 September 2004 (Canada)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

Laughter Is The Best Medicine

Plot:

Follows the mis-adventures of a group of young interns at a hospital/medical school - dealing with the pressures of school and love.

Plot Keywords:

Nose Joke | Directed By Star | Medical Intern | Student Stripper | Severed Nose

US TV Schedule:

Mon. Oct. 13

8:00 AM

COMEDY

Cast

Peter Oldring	...	Mike Bonnert
Pat Kelly	...	Dale Dodd
Viv Leacock	...	Marlon Thomas
Ingrid Kavelaars	...	Mira Towers
Jane McLean	...	Christine Lee
Christine Chatelain	...	Mitzi Cole
Lynda Boyd	...	Cynthia Skyes
Carly Pope	...	Sarah Calder
Dave Foley	...	Dr. Denton Whiteside
Dave Thomas	...	Dr. Omar Olson
Dan Aykroyd	...	Dr. Cyrill Kipp
Maury Chaykin	...	Dr. Roger 'Tony' Toussant
Matt Frewer	...	Dr. Anton Keller
Saul Rubinek	...	Dr. Sam Bonnert
Sue Huff	...	Dr. Susan Bonnert

Also Known As:

An Intern's Diary (Canada: English title) (working title)
Interns (Canada: English title) (working title)
Médecin en herbe (Canada: French title)
White Coats (USA) (DVD title)
Whitecoats (Canada: English title) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for crude and sex-related humor, nudity and language.

Runtime:

Canada:98 min (Ontario) | Argentina:96 min | Canada:90 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:MA | Argentina:16 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14A (British Columbia) | Canada:14A (Ontario)

Filming Locations:

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Company:

Minds Eye Entertainment

Trivia:

SPOLIER: Urban legends portrayed in this movie (most false): - While it's well documented people have shown up in hospital emergency rooms with various bizarre objects lodged in their rectums (like a little girl's doll as in this movie), the doctor's remark about earlier finding live animals lodged in some patient's rectum is pure folklore. - Medical students go to bar, find out that one of their female classmates is working as a stripper to pay her way through medical school. - Students in a biology class are asked to take saliva swabs from their mouths and examine them under microscopes. One female student's swab reveals the presence of sperm from giving oral sex just before class. - The doctor's remark that the hospital administrator would harvest his kidneys while he's asleep and sell them to Indonesia. - Inattentive cleaning lady caused death every Friday when she unplugged patients' life support systems to plug in her floor polisher. - Woman having sex with guy she just met in waiting room. Doctor comes in and informs the couple the woman just tested positive for several STDs. - Cadavers used in medical colleges were formerly homeless people or unclaimed bodies. - The exploding colostomy bag. - a mature woman can't figure out why how she became pregnant because she's too naive about what the sexual act is.

Quotes:

Mira Towers: White is right.
Marlon Thomas: But black is beautiful.

Movie Connections:

References "Quincy M.E." (1976)

I Loved This Movie

The St. Albert's Teaching Hospital, considered the worst in the public health system and administrated by the corrupt Dr. Cyrill Kipp (Dan Aykroyd), receives a new group of interns: the clumsy Mike Bonnert (Peter Oldring), whose parents are prominent doctors and forced him to study in medical school; the wolf Dale Dodd (Pat Kelly), who has come to the hospital to meet women and falls in love for the nurse Cynthia Skyes (Lynda Boyd); Marlon Thomas (Viv Leacock), who like to play pranks with his mates; Mira Towers (Ingrid Kavelaars), who aims to be a great surgeon; Christine Lee (Jane McLean), a very efficient student and promising doctor; and Mitzi Cole (Christine Chatelain), who works as stripper to pay for her medical school and becomes Mike's girlfriend. Leaded by Sarah Calder (Carly Pope), the group spends the year learning how to become medical doctors in an environment of lots of confusion.

I loved the unknown and underrated "Intern Academy". The silly story s hilarious, with many politically incorrect gags and jokes about urban legends in a public hospitals, like for example, the corrupt administrator that sells the equipment to raise money; or the student with sperm in her mouth; or the colostomy bag exploding in the face of an intern; or the arrogant doctor; or the lack of respect with the corpse of a John Doe; or the man that arrives with a doll in his rectum; or the promiscuous woman with herpes and other sexual diseases kissing the guy she has just met in the waiting room. There are many other jokes, but one of my favorites is the stupid Ukrainian charwoman that unplugs the life support system of patients to plug the floor polisher. Another one that I laughed a lot is when the clumsy Mike Bonnert goes to the waiting room where three families are waiting news about their beloved relative and Mike commits a series of mistakes. The team of actresses is extremely beautiful and sexy and the actors are very funny. I did not feel the 98 minutes running time; actually I expected to have more. I really recommend this movie for days where the viewer is down or upset to relax. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Os Estagiários" ("The Interns")