ReAction! Chemistry in the Movies

University of Wisconsin premedical student Paige Morgan (Julia Stiles) meets undercover Danish Prince Edvard (Luke Mably) and falls in love.

Someone has petrified muggle-born students and the cat Mrs. Norris; mandrake root juice restores them.

Martin Naranjo (Hector Elizondo) is retired master chef who prepares magnificent weekend meals for his three grown daughters, one of whom is chemistry teacher Leticia (Elizabeth Peña).

Homer Hickman (Jake Gyllenhaal) develops rocket fuels after learning about Sputnik; based on a true story.

Biography of Marie Sklodowska Curie (Greer Garson), who discovered radium with the help of her husband Pierre (Walter Pidgeon).

Documentary asks seven scientists, including Nobel prize-winning pharmaceutical chemist Gertrude Elion, why they do what they do.
Medicine Man (1992) Ethnobotanist Robert Campbell (Sean Connery) and biochemist

Ethnobotanist Robert Campbell (Sean Connery) and biochemist Rae Crane (Lorraine Bracco) use a gas chromatograph to find a cancer-fighting drug in the Amazon forest.

Ethnobiologist Dr. Dennis Alan (Bill Pullman) searches for the molecule that causes zombinism in Haiti. (Part of the 4 Movie Marathon: Cult Horror Collection)

Petroleum chemist Scott Heyward (Elvis Presley) creates a superhard, super-fast-drying varnish that allows him to win the boat race, the heart of the girl he loves (Shelley Fabares), and his father’s respect (James Gregory).

Biography of Paul Ehrlich (Edward G. Robinson), who discovered a chemical cure for syphilis and gave birth to modern drug discovery.

Whitney Cameron (Joseph Cotton) struggles to discover who killed his brother and his niece, before his nephew is murdered as well.

Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) is a Vietnam veteran who struggles to prove that he and his unit were dosed with a chemical that promotes aggression, while trying to resist the side effects of the drug.

A sociopathic teenager (Tuesday Weld) and a mentally challenged man posing as a secret agent (Anthony Perkins) commit a series of increasingly violent crimes.

Atomic testing in New Mexico has an unintended consequence, and the country is threatened by hordes of giant radiation-mutated ants!

Singing cowboy Gene Autry is thrown into the midst of the mysterious killing of his father and, to make matters worse, his best friend is accused of the crime.

A creature plunges from a bridge into the Han River emerging on its shores for a feeding frenzy upon onlookers. When a young girl is snatched in the melee, her family sets off to recover her from the monster that the government claims to be a host of an identified virus

Two doctors try to make sense of a strange disease invading the English countryside.

Childhood friends Mary Keaton, Ruth Wescott and Vivian Deverse reunite ten years after high school. Mary is now a chorus girl, level-headed Ruth has a job as a secretary, and sexy Vivian is on the verge of deserting her wealthy husband Henry Kirkwood and their baby in favor of a glamorous gangster. (Part of the Forbidden Hollywood collection. Vol. 2)