Patch Adams PG-13

Laughter is contagious.
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  • 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

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Rating: 1.5/4 -- It extracts tears individually by liposuction, without anesthesia! Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Jan 1, 2000
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. Full Review
Film Frenzy
Dec 18, 2019
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
May 20, 2008
An overdose of sentimental claptrap, underscored by Marc Shaiman's clichéd string arrangements. Full Review
Time Out
Jun 24, 2006
Shadyac underscores Williams' comic routines with superfluous and frankly relentless reaction shots of patients and hospital staff alike crumpling with laughter. Full Review
Sight and Sound
Jun 18, 2012
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. Full Review
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Sep 2, 2009
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
Jan 1, 2000

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: 025192054624
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