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Gross Anatomy (1989)

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User Rating: 5.7/10 (1,639 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Thom Eberhardt
Writers (WGA):
Mark Spragg (story) and
Howard Rosenman (story) ...
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Release Date:
20 October 1989 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
No one thought a rebel like Joe Slovak would make it through Medical School. But they didn't know Joe.
Plot:
A smart first-year med student takes nothing seriously, except the pursuit of his Gross Anatomy (human dissection) lab partner... more | add synopsis
NewsDesk:
'Halloween' Producer Dead at 54 (From Studio Briefing. 8 March 2005)
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Dissection of The First Year of Medical School more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)
Matthew Modine ... Joe Slovak

Daphne Zuniga ... Laurie Rorbach

Christine Lahti ... Dr. Rachel Woodruff

Todd Field ... David Schreiner
John Scott Clough ... Miles Reed
Alice Carter ... Kim McCauley

Robert Desiderio ... Dr. Banks
Zakes Mokae ... Dr. Banumbra

Clyde Kusatsu ... Interviewing Professor
John Petlock ... Interviewing Professor

J. Patrick McNamara ... Interviewing Professor

Jan Munroe ... Interviewing Professor
Kay E. Kuter ... Lecturing Professor
Michael Flanagan ... Lecturing Professor
Don Perry ... Lecturing Professor
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
A Cut Above
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Runtime:
Canada:109 min | USA:109 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix:
Dolby
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Company:
Hill/Rosenman more

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Continuity: Joe Slovak's shirttails unroll during the final scene. more
Quotes:
Kim McCauley: [Kim is going into labor in a roadside cafe] Guys, I'm gonna have this baby now!
Joe Slovak: Miles, give me your shirt!
Miles Reed: What? This is silk!
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Soundtrack:
Overture from Marriage of Figaro more

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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful:-
Dissection of The First Year of Medical School, 14 May 2006
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Author: lord woodburry (deanofrpps@aol.com) from The Society NY

This is a genteel romantic comedy about the first year of medical school from the perspective of Laurie Rorbach (Daphne Zuniga). There's no hold barred from day one onward: This is a total commitment.

Enter Joe Slovak (Matthew Modine. He's the wise guy from a lower class background but he's got a system for beating the odds and getting by with a minimum of effort. His natural intelligence pulls him through most test of wills, but that chip on the shoulder attitude leaves him with utter contempt for the concept that something greater than educating a medical mechanic is at work. A wise instructor Dr. Rachel Woodruff (Christine Lahti) is out to teach Slovak a powerful lesson.

The lab partner make up an excellent supporting cast. The washout student who is bright willing though unable, the Joe-College type who has pretensions and ambitions as thinly veiled as Slovak's sarcasm, and the female student whose husband wants to keep her barefoot and pregnant give a good cross-section of young adulthood which is of course still in a "becoming" stage.

I was surprised to see that this delightful film did not get higher ratings.

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