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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 22, 1999
- 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:
Rating: 1.5/4 --
It extracts tears individually by liposuction, without anesthesia!
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Chicago Sun-Times
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
Williams pulls out all the stops in a lead role that gives him carte blanche to careen between extremes of silliness and sentimentality; he tries too hard, too obviously, much like the pic itself.
Variety
An overdose of sentimental claptrap, underscored by Marc Shaiman's clichéd string arrangements.
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Time Out
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)
Here is the year's least welcome technological advance, the computer-generated butterfly meant to provide a touch of magic for a film that has none of its own.
New York Times
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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- Sales Rank: 3,518
- UPC: 025192054624
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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