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20 October 1989 (USA)
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No one thought a rebel like Joe Slovak would make it through Medical School. But they didn't know Joe. more
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A smart first-year med student takes nothing seriously, except the pursuit of his Gross Anatomy (human dissection) lab partner...
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Underrated character flick nobody ever talks about
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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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A Cut Above
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Canada:109 min | USA:109 min
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Continuity: After being grilled by Dr. Woodruff, Joe Slovak closes the cadaver's chest cavity twice.
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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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Joe Slovak: Miles, give me your shirt!
Miles Reed: What? This is silk!
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David's Theme
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Not a great film, I suppose, but "Gross Anatomy" has enough that's entertaining, engaging and memorable about it to recommend the film to fans of character drama. "ER" and "Chicago Hope" may well have set the standard for medical dramas, but this look at some first-year med students and their quest to achieve the impossible (become a practicing surgeon or specialist) has long since been forgotten in the trash-bin of seemingly negatable Disney flicks. Released at the turn of the 80's, when Disney was rampantly putting out what seemed like a movie a week, it features a sterling performance by the eternally underrated Matthew Modine as Joe Slovak, an endlessly appealing character despite his tendency to annoy everyone else in the film. Slovak is a wonderful creation on the part of the writers, first seen in a highly memorable pre-credits sequence in which each of the post-grad medical schools asks him questions that eventually reveal the 'real Joe'. Or at least the Joe Slovak he wishes to project. Christine Lahti, who would of course go on to fame and acclaim in "Chicago Hope", practiced her medical chops here as a sickly professor bent on pressuring her students to achieve perfection, even if they themselves aren't often willing to reach for it. The rest of the cast (Daphne Zuniga and the always-great Todd Fields) have done work elsewhere that's gotten more attention, but it's doubtful they've ever been as effective as they are here. By no means is this a classic, but a sharply-observed film that despite a layer of Disney-esque schmaltz manages to touch, entertain and invigorate.