Pathology
Promotional film poster
Directed by	Marc Schoelermann
Produced by	Neveldine/Taylor Gary Lucchesi Tom Rosenberg Richard S. Wright Gary Gilbert Skip Williamson
Written by	Neveldine & Taylor
Starring	Milo Ventimiglia Alyssa Milano Lauren Lee Smith Dan Callahan Michael Weston Johnny Whitworth Keir O'Donnell Larry Drake
Music by	Johannes Kobilke Robb Williamson
Cinematography	Ekkehart Pollack
Editing by	Todd E. Miller
Studio	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Lakeshore Entertainment Camelot Pictures
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	UK 11 April, 2008 US April 18, 2008 (limited)
Running time	93 mins.
Country	United States
Language	English
Gross revenue	Domestic: $109,045 Worldwide: $3,084,404

Pathology is a 2008 thriller film directed by Marc Schoelermann and written by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, the writers of Crank. The cast was announced on April 4, 2007 and filming started in May 2007. The film premiered April 11, 2008 in the United Kingdom and opened in limited release in the United States on April 18, 2008.^[1]

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Critical reception 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Plot

The intro shows a camera recording faces of corpses, with their mouths being moved by medical students. This gives a glimpse of the personality of the characters later introduced as well as their behavior towards the deceased.

A group of residents studying pathology devise a lively game: to see which of the six of them can commit the perfect undetectable murder.

Med school student Teddy Grey (Milo Ventimiglia) graduates top of his class and joins one of the nation’s most prestigious Pathology programs. With talent and determination, Ted is quickly noticed by the program’s privileged and elite band of pathology interns who invite him into their crowd. Intrigued by his new friends he begins to uncover secrets he never expected and finds that he has unknowingly become a pawn in their dangerous and secret after-hours game at the morgue of who can commit the perfect undetectable murder. As Ted becomes seduced into their wild extracurricular activities, the danger becomes real and he must stay one step ahead of the game before he is the next victim.^[2]

Grey joins them in their game, until eventually the group's leader (Dr. Jake Gallo) realizes that Grey is sleeping with his girlfriend (Dr. Juliette Bath) while Gallo would murder people during their secret meetings. Not to mention, when Grey catches several members of the group in lies, he realizes that what initially seemed like vigilante killings are in actuality just innocent people murdered for sport. When Grey's fiancée arrives to stay with him in his apartment, Gallo, angered by his girlfriend's infidelity, kills her for the next game. However, just as they are about to begin the autopsy on Dr. Bath (while plotting Grey's death), Gallo realizes that the gas has been left on in the room, resulting in a massive explosion as one of the group lights a meth pipe, killing everyone (but Grey who was not in the room). Gallo realizes what is about to happen and survives. Grey is seen walking away from the explosion. Eventually Gallo manages to kill Dr. Grey's fiancée in what he believes to be the "perfect murder". Upon completing his autopsy report on his murdered fiancée, Grey is knocked out by Gallo and then is forced to trade verbal barbs with him. Grey uses some of Gallo's own rhetoric against him in reverse psychology passion, after which a fellow pathologist (Dr. Ben Stravinsky) frees Grey and together they kill Gallo in the exact same way that he killed Grey's fiancée (during which, they commence vivisecting a still alive Gallo).

[edit] Cast

• Milo Ventimiglia as Dr. Ted Grey
• Michael Weston as Dr. Jake Gallo
• Alyssa Milano as Gwen Williamson
• Lauren Lee Smith as Dr. Juliette Bath
• Johnny Whitworth as Dr. Griffin Cavanaugh
• John de Lancie as Dr. Quentin Morris
• Mei Melançon as Dr. Catherine Ivy
• Keir O'Donnell as Dr. Ben Stravinsky
• Dan Callahan as Chip Bentwood
• Larry Drake as Fat Bastard
• Buddy Lewis as Harper Johnson
• Alan Blumenfeld as Mr. Williamson
• Deborah Pollack as Mrs. Williamson
• Anne Girard as Donna (Ben's Date)
• Jarvis W. George as ICU Doctor (as Jarvis George)
• Don Smith as Man on Bus
• Sam Witwer as Party Boy

[edit] Critical reception

The film received mixed reviews from critics. As of April 23, 2008, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 47% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 19 reviews.^[3] Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 55 out of 100, based on 8 reviews.^[4]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official website
• Pathology at the Internet Movie Database
• Pathology at Rotten Tomatoes
• Pathology at Metacritic
• Pathology at Box Office Mojo
• Pathology at Allmovie
• Trailer at bloody-disgusting.com
• Pathology at movies.about.com

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