Crazy Doctors in Movies
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Crazy Doctors in Movies

What these MDs lack in acumen they make up for in personality. Which wacky quack gets your vote?

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1 Steve Martin as Orin Scrivello in Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

The sadistic dentist from this madcap musical has a penchant for pain administration and a soft spot for self-administered nitrous.

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2 Billy Crystal as Miracle Max in The Princess Bride (1987)

Without Max's medical expertise, swashbuckling Wesley would have been left for dead, when in fact he was just "mostly dead."

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3 Alfred Molina as Doc Ock in Spider-Man 2 (2004)

This gleeful comic book villain isn't a medical doctor per se, but his work in the field of insane prosthetics shows he's no slouch.

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4 Peter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Sellers' doc is a former Nazi committed to an alarming breeding technique and he also has a violently possessed hand.

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5 Robin Williams as Dr. Adams in Patch Adams (1998)

Two parts manic physical comedy plus one part maudlin speeches makes Williams' clownish doctor one who's sure to set your teeth on edge.

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6 Jeremy Irons as the Drs. Mantle in Dead Ringers (1988)

Brothers Beverly and Elliot Mantle share a gynecological practice, a girlfriend, and a love of creepy custom surgical tools.

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7 Tom Wilkinson as Dr. Mierzwiak in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

As Kate Winslet discovers, Dr. Mierzwiak's procedure to erase painful memories is really more akin to voluntary brain damage. 

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8 Arnold Schwarzenegger as Dr. Hesse in Junior (1994)

Dr. Hesse invents a pioneering new fertility drug, uses it on himself, and gives birth, which no sane man would ever consent to.

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9 Eddie Murphy as Dr. Dolittle in Dr. Dolittle (1998)

This family physician bonks his head and the next thing you know, he's giving a rat CPR and saving a suicidal tiger.

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10 Miguel Lunardi as Dr. Zamora in Turistas (2006)

Lunardi's sweaty, hollow-eyed Brazilian physician acts as Rio's Robin Hood of black market kidney transplants.

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