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MPAA Rating: PG-13 Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Profanity Movie Release: 1989 DVD Release: 09/03/2002 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 49 mins Studio: Walt Disney Video Total Copies: 24 Genres: Comedy Drama, Romantic Comedy, Medical Comedy

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

Matthew Modine - Joe Slovak
Daphne Zuniga - Laurie Rorbach
Christine Lahti - Dr. Rachel Woodruff
Todd Field - David Schreiner
John Scott Clough - Miles Reed

Thom Eberhardt's medical school film Gross Anatomy comes to DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Surround. There are no subtitles, but the soundtrack is closed-captioned. There are no supplemental materials of any consequence. This Disney/Buena Vista title does a fine job of presenting the film, but is all there is to this inexpensive release. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide