Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 10/20/1989(USA)
Release Date: 09/03/2002
Dubbed: English
Sound: DDS
Run Time: 109 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Walt Disney Video
Gross Anatomy is to medical school what
Paper Chase was to law school, with perhaps a little less sobriety.
Mathew Modine plays a blue-collar kid attending a posh school of medicine, where everyone--teacher and student alike--seems to be well above Modine's social strata. Perhaps as a reaction to the snobbery all around him, Modine behaves as irreverently as possible. Neither teacher
Christine Lahti nor lab partner
Daphne Zuniga finds Modine's what-the-hell act appealing, but both are fully aware that he is a talented young man with a brilliant future. The climax of the film lays it on pretty thick in defining Modine as an all-around good fellow despite his cheekiness (he even delivers a baby just before taking his finals!), but
Gross Anatomy strives successfully to be a "feel good" movie--albeit brought ever so slightly down to earth by the death of one of the principal characters.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide