Gross Anatomy Summary
MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: Thom Eberhardt
Genres: Comedy Drama
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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), finds Joe'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 Joe 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, Rovi
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