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Released
1989 · FILM

Gross Anatomy

“No one thought a real rebel like Joe would make it through medical school. But they didn't know Joe.”

Directed by
Thom Eberhardt
Written by
Mark Spragg, Howard Rosenman
Runtime
109 min
Drama
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Joe Slovak is a first‑year medical student whose casual, nonconforming approach to life is tested when he enrolls in Gross Anatomy, the toughest course in medical school.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Bud S SmithShot by Steve YaconelliScored by David NewmanDesigned by William F Matthews

Box Office

1989 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.4× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$11.6M

Budget$8.5M
Worldwide gross$11.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $2.8M — 24% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $3.6M — 31% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 853 theaters

Also known as

  • Liebe Stress und Fieberkurvende
  • Pobre o por vocaciónes
  • Corso di anatomiait

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