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Gross Anatomy (1989)

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Gross Anatomy is to medical school what The Paper Chase was to law school, with perhaps a little less sobriety. Matthew Modine plays the blue-collar Joe Slovak, who's attending a posh school of medicine where everyone -- teacher and student alike -- seems to be well above his social stratum. Perhaps as a reaction to the snobbery all around him, he behaves as irreverently as possible. Neither his teacher Dr. Rachel Woodruff (Christine Lahti) nor his lab partner, Laurie Rorbach (Daphne Zuniga),

PG-13, 1 hr. 47 min.

Drama, Comedy

Directed By: Thom Eberhardt

In Theaters: Oct 20, 1989 Wide

On DVD: Sep 3, 2002

Cast

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
J.C. Quinn
Papa Slovak
Rutanya Alda
Mama Slovak
Russell Bobbitt
Gunshot Victim
Gordon Clapp
Doctor
O. Laron Clark
Food Server
Clyde Kusatsu
Interviewing Professor
Steven Culp
Jerry Fanning Forrester
Michael Flanagan
Lecturing Professor
Charles Fleischer
Elizabeth Gilliam
Nina McCauley
Brandis Kemp
Aunt Rose
Tom Kurlander
Student
Jan Kuter
Kay E. Kuter
Lecturing Professor
Angus MacInnes
Dean Torrence
J. Patrick McNamara
Interviewing Professor
Jack Murdock
Old Patient
Max Perlich
Ethan Cleaver
John Petlock
Interviewing Professor
Diane Robin
Waitress
Bill E. Rogers
Cop
Kimberly Scott
Nurse Louise
John Short
Resident
Michael Stoyanov
Joel Cleaver
Taylor Swift
Cynthia Wilkes
Lisa Zane
Luann
Don Perry
Lecturing Professor
Bruce Beatty
Kelly
Scott Allan Campbell
Ed McCauley
Ryan Cash
Frankie Slovak
Pola del Mar
Gang Member's Mother
Frank Foti Jr.
Cop
Rick Goldman
Truck Driver
Susanne Goldstein
Student
Jesse Anthony Gonzalez
Gang Member's Brother
Beth Hogan
Marie
Jan Munroe
Interviewing Professor
Frank Torres
Gang Member
Judith Weiner

Critic Reviews for Gross Anatomy

All Critics (16) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (7) | DVD (1)

Has real heart. Lahti gives a poignant performance

March 3, 2006 Comment

Clint Morris

Mediasharx Source: Mediasharx

It's an unfunny "Young Doctors in Love."

September 23, 2005 Comment

Rob Thomas

Capital Times (Madison, WI)

Cheesy comedy that works as background visuals at a party.

July 21, 2004 Comment

Alex Sandell

Juicy Cerebellum

silly med-school soap opera

October 14, 2002 Comment

Bob Bloom

Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

So-so med-school rom-drama.

July 25, 2002 Comment

Scott Weinberg

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rather ordinary film with an extraordinary performance by the great Christine Lathi.

August 28, 2007

jay nixon

Super Reviewer

In spite of its misleading name, this is no horror film but a romantic drama with comedic elements. Daphne Zuniga and Matthew Modine play students in med school surrounded by other med students who, are all driven to excel. Zuniga is very much work focused and rigidly serious but Modine`s character is the somewhat

June 7, 2011

Deb S

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