Patch Adams
Laughter is contagious.
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 10, 2016
- Originally Released: 1998
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Robin Williams | |
| Performer: | Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bob Gunton, Peter Coyote, Josef Sommer, Monica Potter, Harve Presnell, Irma P. Hall, Michael Jeter, Frances Lee McCain, Harold Gould, Alan Tudyk, James Greene, Bruce Bohne, Harry Groener, Barry Shabaka Henley, Ellen Albertini Dow, Ryan Hurst & Richard Kiley | |
| Directed by | Tom Shadyac | |
| Edited by | Don Zimmerman | |
| Screenplay by | Steve Oedekerk | |
| Composition by | Marc Shaiman | |
| Produced by | Barry Kemp, Mike Farrell, Marvin Minoff & Charles Newirth | |
| Director of Photography: | Phedon Papamichael |
Entertainment Reviews:
22%
73%
Like too many of Mr. Williams's recent movies, Patch Adams wastes the genius of a peerless clown.
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Wall Street Journal
Rating: 2/5 --
True-story medical tale is made shallow and sentimental.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: 1/4 --
Patch Adams is offensive in the way it trots out every hoary plot device, no matter how improbable, exploitative or downright moronic.
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Film Frenzy
Comics who want to do Hamlet often end up, as here, serving big, sticky slices of ham.
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TIME Magazine
...[Williams] brings a magic and charm to this character that no one else could....PATCH ADAMS succeeds in putting a twinkle in your eye...
Box Office
Shadyac underscores Williams' comic routines with superfluous and frankly relentless reaction shots of patients and hospital staff alike crumpling with laughter.
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Sight and Sound
Rating: 2/5 --
Indulges to the hilt every obnoxious, hyperactive, oh-what-I-wouldn't-give-for-a-tranquilizer-gun aspect of Robin Williams' performing style.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Product Description:
Tom Shadyac's (ACE VENTURA) film tells the true story of Hunter "Patch" Adams (Robin Williams), an aspiring doctor in the 1970's who attempted to treat his patients with a medicine that modern science had totally disregarded: humor. After a stint in a mental hospital where he discovers his need to help others, a young Patch enters medical school. There he develops his own methods of reaching patients as an antidote to the the pomposity he witnesses in his instructors and fellow students. While his patients and fellow staff members appreciate his approach, the powers-that-be frown upon his "unschooled" methods and attempt to prevent him from practicing. Philip Seymour Hoffman (MAGNOLIA) and Monica Potter (ALONG CAME A SPIDER) co-star in this crowd pleaser based on a book by Adams.
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- UPC: 025192351891
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