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Average Rating: 4.7 Stars
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| December 25th, 1998
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Tom Shadyac |
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Patch Adams, Maureen Mylander, Steve Oedekerk |
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Robin Williams, Monica Potter, Daniel London, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bob Gunton, Peter Coyote |
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Universal Pictures |
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Comedy, Drama |
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patchadams.com |
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PG-13 some strong language, crude humor |
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$134,900,000 |
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Patch Adams is a comedy based on the true story of a compassionate but outrageous medical student who risks his career by defying the medical profession with his unwavering belief that laughter is contagious.
Inspired to become a doctor while institutionalized for depression as a teenager, Patch Adams attended the Medical College of Virginia in the late '60s and early '70s. After graduation, he formed the Gesundheit Institute, dedicated to a more connected, personalized approach to medicine.
Using unconventional methods and wacky surprises to ease patients' anxiety and enhance their healing, Patch helped pioneer the then-startling idea that doctors should treat people, not just disease. Compassion, involvement and empathy, Patch holds, are as great a value to physicians as breakthrough medicines and technological advancements.
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