Hunter "Patch" Adams
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Patch Adams is a 1998 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Tom Shadyac and starring Robin Williams (in the title role), Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bob Gunton, Daniel London and Peter Coyote.
Dec 25, 1998 · Patch Adams: Directed by Tom Shadyac. With Robin Williams, Daniel London, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman. The true story of a heroic man, Hunter "Patch" Adams, determined to become a medical doctor because he enjoys helping people.
Jan 9, 2012 · Meet Patch Adams, a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just about anything to make his...
Robin Williams is Patch Adams, a doctor who will do anything to make his patients laugh -- even if it means risking his own career -- in this inspiring comedy based on a true story.
After struggling with depression in a mental hospital, Hunter "Patch" Adams (Robin Williams) decides he wants to become a doctor. He enrolls at Virginia Medical University but is disillusioned...
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- Comedy, Drama
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Dec 25, 1998 · In the movie, Patch plays the clown to cheer up little tykes whose hair has fallen out from chemotherapy. Put in charge of the school welcoming committee for a gynecologists' convention, he builds a papier-mache prop: enormous spread legs reaching an apex at a lecture hall entrance.
In 1969, Hunter Adams was a troubled man who voluntarily committed himself into a mental institution. Once there, he finds that helping his fellow inmates there gives him a purpose in life. Thus inspired, he leaves the asylum and vows to become a doctor to help people professionally.
