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Gray's Anatomy

  • 19961996
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 20m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
2.4K
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Gray's Anatomy (1996)
After doctors inform him that an eye affliction will require risky surgery, monologist Spalding Gray recounts his various pursuits for alternative medicine to avoid the doctor's scalpel.
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After doctors inform him that an eye affliction will require risky surgery, monologist Spalding Gray recounts his various pursuits for alternative medicine to avoid the doctor's scalpel.After doctors inform him that an eye affliction will require risky surgery, monologist Spalding Gray recounts his various pursuits for alternative medicine to avoid the doctor's scalpel.After doctors inform him that an eye affliction will require risky surgery, monologist Spalding Gray recounts his various pursuits for alternative medicine to avoid the doctor's scalpel.
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
2.4K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Steven Soderbergh
  • Writers
    • Spalding Gray(monologue)
    • Renée Shafransky(monologue)
  • Stars
    • Spalding Gray
    • Mike McLaughlin
    • Melissa Robertson
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  • Director
    • Steven Soderbergh
  • Writers
    • Spalding Gray(monologue)
    • Renée Shafransky(monologue)
  • Stars
    • Spalding Gray
    • Mike McLaughlin
    • Melissa Robertson
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    • 13User reviews
    • 24Critic reviews
    • 60Metascore
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    Spalding Gray
    Spalding Gray
    • Selfas Self
    Mike McLaughlin
    • Selfas Self
    Melissa Robertson
    • Selfas Self
    Alvin Henry
    • Selfas Self
    Alyne Hargroder
    • Selfas Self
    Buddy Carr
    • Selfas Self
    Gerry Urso
    • Selfas Self
    Chris Simms
    • Selfas Self
    Tommy Staub
    • Selfas Self
    Kirk A. Patrick Jr.
    • Selfas Self
    Angela Casassa
    Angela Casassa
    • Woman in ERas Woman in ER
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Steven Soderbergh
    • Writers
      • Spalding Gray(monologue)
      • Renée Shafransky(monologue)
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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      The Broadway performance of "Gray's Anatomy" by Spalding Gray opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre on November 28, 1993, ran for 13 performances and closed on January 3, 1994. A repeat performance reopened at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on June 5, 1994, ran for 8 performances and closed on June 27, 1994.
    • Goofs
      The earpieces of the stethoscopes are supposed to have the slant toward the front because that is the way the ear canal in the skull runs. Every scene shows them just obscuring sound using the stethoscope with the slant toward the back of the user's head. Its an error against anatomy.
    • Quotes

      Female Interviewee: I think I've been disfigured; or at least blinded.

    • Crazy credits
      Although inspired by actual events, the characters and events depicted in the monologue portion of this motion picture have been fictionalized. Any similarity to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
    • Connections
      Follows Swimming to Cambodia (1987)

    User reviews13

    Review
    Top review
    7/10
    A one-man bundle of neuroses
    But that's why some people love Spalding Gray. And although I do not fall into that category, per se, I was very entertained by this 80-minute monologue -- told in ranting New Yorker mannerisms that are nonetheless fairly endearing -- about what Gray should do about his macular pucker.

    The macular pucker, we learn in great detail, is an eye condition that must ultimately be "scraped" in order to restore normal vision. Gray, a born Christian Scientist and an enduring doctor-phobe, walks around New York City, tearing his hair out while choosing among the opinions of an array of quacks who weigh in on the issue. (Or, at least, he describes himself doing this -- the whole film is a series of closeups of Gray in a studio, with various visual stimuli applied to him, through the wonderful direction of the visionary Steven Soderbergh). Through the course of the narrative he describes near-slapstick visits to a Native American sweat lodge, a Phillipino doctor who is the Elvis of healers, a quirky New Jersey "dietary opthalmologist" and several others. It's all told with great storytelling verve, and occasional moments of poignancy.

    The film also consists of a series of short documentary interviews with about 8 survivors of eye trauma, who each nearly lost (or in some cases did) vision in stomach-churning ways. Their occasional thoughts on the healing process are very fascinating.

    Because of its odd structural format, the one-man narrative film threatens to fall by the wayside. Not that it has ever been a particularly popular form, but its appeal is perhaps dwindling further as our attention spans, and ability to sit through prolonged stories, deteriorate. However, Gray, with a boost from Soderbergh, gives the genre a good name -- and hope
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • March 19, 1997 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Анатомия Грэя
    • Filming locations
      • Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
    • Production companies
      • BBC Films
      • Independent Film Channel (IFC)
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $350,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $29,090
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $4,690
      • Mar 23, 1997
    • Gross worldwide
      • $29,090
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 20 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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