Gross Anatomy is a 1980s medical school drama, something like what The Paper Chase was to law school. The movie stars Matthew Modine as Joe Slovak, a smart student who does "good enough" to get into med school, but does not reach his full potential, basically because of his attitude and unwillingness to apply himself, Christine Lahti, as Dr. Rachel Woodruff, one of the professors at the medical school Joe is accepted to, and one of the teachers of the class Gross Anatomy, and Daphnie Zuniga as Laurie Rorbach, another med student and potential love interest for Joe (because of course there had to be a love story component).
The movie is set around the first-year med school experience, namely through the Gross Anatomy class in which the students have to dissect a human cadaver over the course of the year. There are several conflicts in the movie, one of the main ones between Lathi's character and Modine's character as she tries to push him to live up to his full potential and he chafes under her strict rules. It also deals with the pressure of med school and the desire to succeed at all costs, drug use, work-life balance, and the like. It also has some plot twists along the way that make for a good story.
The A/V quality of the Blu-Ray is good. It did not get an extremely high-quality transfer. Whether there are any extras depends on whether you get the regular edition (which has no extras just the movie) or the special edition (which has a commentary track by the director and trailers). I have the regular edition with just the movie, which I think is fine.
Overall, the movie is a good late 80s drama. It is well-written and well-acted. Some of it is definitely formulaic, but it is not totally cookie-cutter either. Chances are most people who are thinking of getting this watched it on TV growing up. If you are in that camp, I would say that the movie holds up pretty well even over thirty years later.
The movie is set around the first-year med school experience, namely through the Gross Anatomy class in which the students have to dissect a human cadaver over the course of the year. There are several conflicts in the movie, one of the main ones between Lathi's character and Modine's character as she tries to push him to live up to his full potential and he chafes under her strict rules. It also deals with the pressure of med school and the desire to succeed at all costs, drug use, work-life balance, and the like. It also has some plot twists along the way that make for a good story.
The A/V quality of the Blu-Ray is good. It did not get an extremely high-quality transfer. Whether there are any extras depends on whether you get the regular edition (which has no extras just the movie) or the special edition (which has a commentary track by the director and trailers). I have the regular edition with just the movie, which I think is fine.
Overall, the movie is a good late 80s drama. It is well-written and well-acted. Some of it is definitely formulaic, but it is not totally cookie-cutter either. Chances are most people who are thinking of getting this watched it on TV growing up. If you are in that camp, I would say that the movie holds up pretty well even over thirty years later.
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