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Patch Adams

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Patch Adams

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Summary

Biographical comedy drama starring Robin Williams as a former mental patient-turned-medical student whose unorthodox methods of treating the infirm soon bring him into conflict with forbidding authoritarian, Dean Walcott.

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

Angie Errigo

Robin Williams is ideally cast here as Hunter "Patch" Adams, an irrepressible idealist whose dream of becoming a doctor is threatened by his inability to conform to medical school dictates, particularly in his persistence in relating to patients on an emotional level. Williams's penchant for playing the clowning do-gooder is indulged too heavily by director Tom Shadyac, however, and the pat manipulation of emotions comes with a dangerously high level of saccharin. But anyone who's ever felt aggrieved by impersonal treatment from the medical establishment will enjoy Williams's system-bucking antics and the sincerity of Patch's mission to treat the individual as well as the disease.

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Cast

rolenameHunter "Patch" AdamsRobin WilliamsTrumanDaniel LondonCarinMonica PotterMitchPhilip Seymour HoffmanDean WalcottBob GuntonDr EatonJosef SommerJolettaIrma P HallJudyFrances Lee McCain

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rolenameDirectorTom Shadyac

Details

Theatrical distributor

U.I.P. (UK)

Released on

1999-03-12

Languages

English

Guidance

Edited for language.

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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