Paramedics is a 1988 comedy film

Comedy film

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 starring George Newbern

George Newbern

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 and Christopher McDonald

Christopher McDonald

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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.

DVD release

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