Gray's Anatomy

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Gray's Anatomy

1996

1h 20m

Comedy

Drama

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When actor and monologist Spalding Gray discovers that he has developed an eye ailment, he finds out that the condition can be corrected by a surgical procedure. Intent on avoiding surgery and time in a hospital at all costs, Gray sets out on a quest to find treatment via alternative medicine, which leads him to odd potential changes in his diet, psychic surgeons and sweat lodges. Gray's search for healing also brings him back to his upbringing as a Christian Scientist.

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Janet Maslin

New York Times

A chatty, colorful, nicely sardonic account of how a crisis led Mr. Gray to assess his medical state, consider his mortality and take one more funny, self-dramatizing look at the eccentric world around him.

Rated: 3.5/5

May 20, 2003

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Rick Groen

Globe and Mail

At best, Gray is a tragicomic Everyman who strikes an empathic chord in his admiring audience; at worst, he's a middle-aged, self-absorbed, hopelessly provincial New Yorker -- an urban hick who won't shut up.

Rated: 2.5/4

Apr 12, 2002

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Marc Savlov

Austin Chronicle

Not only is it interesting to follow the course of Gray's storyline, the movie is also equally interesting to view, even if the storyteller is just sitting in front of a desk most of the time.

Rated: 3/5

Jan 1, 2000

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Jordan M. Smith

IONCINEMA.com

Gray's Anatomy, in all its low budget glory, flourishes in its simplicity.

Nov 12, 2020

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Mattie Lucas

From the Front Row

Becomes a kind of strange examination of human existence; frail, idiosyncratic, and ultimately a kind of cosmic joke.

Rated: 3.5/4

Aug 6, 2019

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Walter Chaw

Film Freak Central

It is haunting, though. How could it not be, when the last lines of the monolog are "Ecstasy, despair, ecstasy, despair" and some mention of a big fish?

Rated: 2.5/4

Sep 4, 2012

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S R

I was intrigued by the premise, but this is still bizarre. The monologue and its subtle juxtapositions were interesting. Saw on hbo.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

04/27/24

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Audience Member

please continue with my show which I've been watching since the beginning!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/29/23

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Audience Member

A lot of liberal agenda trying to brainwash the public

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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Audience Member

Eye carumba! This is one of Grey's finest monologues. It makes me miss him that much more.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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Audience Member

Spalding Gray weaves a story about science, faith, mortality, and neuroses while Steve Soderbergh captures Gray with simplistic flare.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/02/23

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camille l

Passionner un spectateur pendant 80 minutes en ne montrant qu'un homme assis qui raconte ses deboires avec une maladie oculaire, c'est un tour de force que realise le genial STEVEN SODERBERGH grace a une mise en scene tres efficace, une image d'une beaute impressionnante et a SPALDING GRAY, qui degage un charisme etonnant. Le film tourne neanmoins un peu en rond dans son dernier quart d'heure. Une experience cinematographique a faire.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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John Hardy

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Synopsis

When actor and monologist Spalding Gray discovers that he has developed an eye ailment, he finds out that the condition can be corrected by a surgical procedure. Intent on avoiding surgery and time in a hospital at all costs, Gray sets out on a quest to find treatment via alternative medicine, which leads him to odd potential changes in his diet, psychic surgeons and sweat lodges. Gray's search for healing also brings him back to his upbringing as a Christian Scientist.

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Producer: John Hardy
Screenwriter: Spalding Gray
Production Co: Independent Film Channel (IFC) Canada, BBC Film
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 12, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $4.7K
Runtime: 1h 20m

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