Gray's Anatomy (film)

This article is about the film. For the television series, see Grey's Anatomy. For other uses, see Gray's Anatomy (disambiguation).
Gray's Anatomy
Promotional poster
Directed bySteven Soderbergh
Written bySpalding Gray
Renée Shafransky
Produced byJohn Hardy
StarringSpalding Gray
CinematographyElliot Davis
Edited bySusan Littenberg
Music byCliff Martinez
Production
company
Distributed byIFC Films
Release dates
  • September 11, 1996 (1996-09-11) (TIFF)
  • March 19, 1997 (1997-03-19) (U.S.)
Running time
80 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$350,000
Box office$29,090[1]

Gray's Anatomy is an 80-minute concert film directed by Steven Soderbergh in 1996 involving a dramatized monologue by actor/writer Spalding Gray. The title is taken from the classic human anatomy textbook Gray's Anatomy, originally written by Henry Gray in 1858. It was shot in ten days in late January 1996[2] during a break Soderbergh had from post-production on his previous film, Schizopolis.

The monologist film is about Spalding Gray, the main character, who is diagnosed with a rare ocular condition called macular pucker. After hearing all of his options, such as Christian Science, Native American sweat lodges, and the "Elvis Presley of psychic surgeons", and the dangers of what surgery could bring, he decides to go through the other forms of medicine provided. This in turn takes him on a journey around the world and steers him away from surgery more so because of religious reasons, often in a dramatic and humorous fashion.[3]

This was the fourth and last of Gray's theatrically released monologue films, following Swimming to Cambodia, Monster in a Box, and Terrors of Pleasure.

The film is available on DVD. A remastered version was released by The Criterion Collection on DVD and Blu-ray in June 2012.[4]

  1. ^ "Gray's Anatomy". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
  2. ^ McCarthy, Todd (16 September 1996). "Gray's Anatomy".
  3. ^ Dan (5 December 2011). "Public Transportation Snob: Soderbergh Marathon: Gray's Anatomy (1996)". PTSnob.com. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
  4. ^ "Gray's Anatomy (1997) – The Criterion Collection". Retrieved 2012-3-17.