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Plot: Fact-based story of Hunter "Patch" Adams (Robin Williams), the founder of the Gesundheit Clinic, a clinic which deals with their patients with humor and pathos. The film starts with Hunter admitting h...( read more read more... )imself as a patient in a mental ward. While there, he found he enjoyed helping the other patients and found the staff to be cold and separative from the patients. Vowing to change things, he releases himself from the hospital and headed to the Virginia Medical College. His unorthodox methods cast him up against many of the doctors and deans of the university, despite him getting some of the highest grades in his class. Recognizing that many poor people were not being treated, as a student he formed the Gesundheit Clinic to aid those who were not getting proper treatment at the hospital. However, this brought him up before the Medical Review Board for practicing without a license.

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  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    November 20, 2008
    great movie ..
    i wish there are people left like Patch Adams
    PS. psychiatry does seem a bad idea, it is peaceful
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    November 7, 2008
    I really love this movie because he is helpin people who is sad or something else but it really cool movie
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    November 2, 2008
    Some of this is really moving, yet some of it falls flat. Hit and miss, watch it with your family around Thanksgiving.
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    October 13, 2008
    I enjyoed this movie, probably more than most people did. I couldn't give this movie more stars, even though I enjoyed it, because there are far too many serious parts in the movie.
  • 4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    October 4, 2008
    This is one of my favorites. The humor/tragedy balance is perfect. It does great honor to the real Patch Adams.

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  • dnyanimo
    this movie is the sweetest movie ever....
    posted 280 days ago
  • evilfairy78387
    it is a really good movie it is so sweet and it has its sad parts but other wise it is so very good and it is also funny.
    posted 366 days ago
  • kolenangel
    itz a verry nice movie....i swear....
    posted 416 days ago
  • janaf1
    Im the first to comment!!!! lol good movie
    posted 635 days ago

Details


  • Rated: (PG-13)
  • Directed by: Tom Shadyac
  • Genres: Drama, Comedy
  • Released: December 25, 1998
  • DVD Released: June 22, 1999

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