Inspiration for the callow, shallow dollar-chaser who wants to believe he can have great success and prestige and still be a smart-mouth and a screw-off along the way. Oh, and shoot some baskets too. The specific setting is med school, so there's particular inspiration for those whose total esteem for the medical profession was learned from the movie of MASH. (There's also, in that same vein, intermittent occasion for that form of titillation so popular on TV news shows, that year-round mainstay that gets them through the months when swimming suits are packed in the closet: the gore of the operating room.) You might feel a little bad for Christine Lahti, but not because her character is dying of lupus. With Matthew Modine and Daphne Zuniga; directed by Thom Eberhardt. (1989) — Duncan Shepherd
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