Gray's Anatomy (1996) on Netflix
Spalding Gray learns that the distortion in his left eye is macular pucker, a rare condition. He has religious objections to surgery, so he looks into alternative cures.
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Plot summary
A rare condition called macular pucker has distorted the sight in Spalding Gray's left eye. Gray is past fifty and has begun to think about his own death. The doctors lay out an operation to repair the eye and the dangers it could bring. Gray, a monologist, has religious objections to surgery and looks for another route. The choices he hears about include Christian Science, Native American sweat lodges, a raw-vegetable diet and a psychic surgeon in the Philippines billed as the Elvis Presley of psychic surgeons. Some of the treatments are communal, such as mass nude encounters in a sweatbox.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Gray's Anatomy (1996)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Steven Soderbergh shot Gray's Anatomy in ten days in late January 1996, squeezing the whole shoot into a break from post-production on his previous film, Schizopolis.
- Gray's Anatomy was the fourth and last of Spalding Gray's theatrically released monologue films, coming after Swimming to Cambodia, Monster in a Box and Terrors of Pleasure.
