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Director : Tom Shadyac

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Genre : Biography, Comedy, Drama

Cast : (in credits order) (verified as complete), Robin Williams as Patch Adams, Daniel London as Truman, Monica Potter as Carin, Philip Seymour Hoffman as Mitch, Bob Gunton as Dean Walcott, Josef Sommer as Dr. Eaton, Irma P. Hall as Joletta, Frances Lee McCain as Judy, Harve Presnell as Dean Anderson, Daniella Kuhn as Adelane, Peter Coyote as Bill Davis, James Greene as Bile, Michael Jeter as Rudy, Harold Gould as Arthur Mendelson, Bruce Bohne as Trevor Beene, Harry Groener as Dr. Prack, Barry Shabaka Henley as Emmet (as Barry Shabaka Henley), Steven Anthony Jones as Charlie, Richard Kiley as Dr. Titan, Douglas Roberts as Larry, Ellen Albertini Dow as Aggie, Alan Tudyk as Everton, Ryan Hurst as Neil, Peter Siteri as Chess Man (as Peter Siiteri), Don West as Instructor, Domenique Lozano as Passerby, Ralph Peduto as Organizer, Ken Hoffman as Big Texan, Roy Conrad as E.R. Doctor, Jay Jacobus as Jack Walton, Dot Jones as Miss Meat (as Dot Marie Jones), Geoff Fiorito as 3rd Year Student, Samuel Sheng as 3rd Year Student, Kathleen Stefano as Margery, Piers Mackenzie as Dr. Hashman, Alex Gonzalez as Hispanic Boy, Ismael East Carlo as Hispanic Father, Jake Bowen as Bryan, Cameron Brooke Stanley as Childrens Ward Patient, Jamieson Downes as Childrens Ward Patient (as Jamieson G. Downes), Jena Marie Thomas as Childrens Ward Patient, Wesley G. Haines as Childrens Ward Patient, Aaron Alexander as Childrens Ward Patient, Amadeius Cheadle as Childrens Ward Patient, David Cooper as Childrens Ward Patient, Peter Idiart as Childrens Ward Patient, Tim Johnson as Childrens Ward Patient, Kate Keith as Childrens Ward Patient, Alberto Rocha as Childrens Ward Patient, Domonique Tate as Childrens Ward Patient, Joseph Trefry as Childrens Ward Patient, Richard J. Silberg as Psych Patient, William Joseph Scharff as Psych Patient, James Anthony Cotton as Psych Patient, Michael X. Sommers as Psych Patient (as Michael Rae Sommers), Howard Allison Williams as Psych Patient, David Fine as Psych Patient, James Carraway as Psych Patient, J. Stephen Coyle as Psych Patient, Wanda McCaddon as Woman in Lobby, Wanda Christine as Nurse Klegg (as Wandachristine), Lorri Holt as Pediatric Nurse, Stephanie Smith as Laughing Nurse, Mary DeLorenzo as Nurse, Vivis Cortez as Hysterical Woman (as Vivis), Donna Kimball as Waitress, Norman Alden as Truck Driver, Lydell M. Cheshier as Younger Man, Diane Amos as Older Waitress, Sonya Eddy as Older Waitress, Kelvin Han Yee as Orderly (as Kelvin Yee), Doreen Foo Croft as Asian Woman (as Doreen Chou Croft), Bill Roberson as Fred Jarvis, Randy Oglesby as Pinstriped Man, Vilma Vitanva as Maria (as Vilma Vitanza), Bonnie Johnson as Walcotts Secretary, Helen Tourtillott as Feeble Woman, Christine Pineda as Hispanic Girl, Karen Michel as Mrs. Davis, James Allen as Ed, Katherine Fitzhugh as Mrs. OBannon (as Katherine A. Fitzhugh), Kyle Timothy Smith as Davis Son, Jonathan Holder as Davis Son, Renee Rogers as Receptionist, Shannon Orrock as Receptionist (as Shann Orrock), Don Rizzo as Minister, George Lee as Boardroom Doctor (as George Lee Masters), Dan Hannafin as Boardroom Doctor (as Daniel P. Hannafin), Roger W. Durrett as Boardroom Doctor, Richard C. Adkins as Gynecologist, Ralph David Westfall as Gynecologist, Bob Feaster as Gynecologist, Thom McIntyre as Gynecologist, Alfred Salley as Gynecologist, Michael Stanton Kennedy as Gynecologist (as Michael Kennedy) David Acuff as Dr. Anderson, Andy Arness as Orderly, Jason Aaron Baca as Patch Pirate, Rick Camp as Funeral Mourner, Mike Casey as Orderly, Alan Coppola as Man in Arm Cast, Patricia M. Fairchild as Patient, Mylo Ironbear as Hospital Patient, Alexander Kanellakos as Medical Intern, Brian T. Rice as Dr. Wilson S. Anders, Jonathan Schancupp as Man, Greg Sestero as Jaime (Monica Potters brother), Greg Taylor as Student in Boardroom, James Marshall Wolchok as Gynecologist

Plot : A homeopathic student inside the 70s that dealt with patients, illegally, by means of humor.

Run Time : 115 min

Country : USA

Language : English

Filming Locations : Asheville, North Carolina, USA

Company : Blue Wolf

Trivia : The poem that Patch reads to Corinne is an English translation of Sonnet XVII by Pablo Neruda.

Goofs : Factual errors: At solitary lead inside the movie, Patch says that humans are the sole organisms on world that exterminate their own kind; this is not the case – chimpanzees further do this, with sharks eat their young.

Plot Summary : Patch Adams is indomitable to be changed into a homeopathic physician for he indulge in being a tower of power to people. Unfortunately, the homeopathic with scientific neighborhood pulls off not prize his pathways of analysis the sick, sec the existent patients, homeopathic professors, with sickbay nurses the inclusive thing prize the activity *he* could do, for they are not capable to do it.

In 1969, Hunter Adams was a tormented person of raw age who voluntarily devoted himself into a psychological institution. Once there, he finds that coming to someone’s rescue his dude inmates there devotes him a plan inside life. Thus inspired, he trees the asylum in addition to agrees to grow to be a medical expert to pitch inside with people at large professionally. However, whatsoever he finds at curative style is a sickeningly callous political beliefs that advocates an arms-length manner to the patients that completes not location their mental imply or the pleasantness of their lives. Patch Adams is dogged to evaluate a more adept rule to pitch inside with them, even if the consequences of his defiance of the methods in addition to the authorities are severe.

Fact-based fairy-tale of Hunter Patch Adams, the founder of the Gesundheit Clinic, a consultation room which deals plus their patients plus drollness with pathos. The movie starts plus Hunter confessing himself because a patient inside a emotional ward. While there, he appraised he enjoyed backing up the assorted patients with appraised the team of workers to engagement frosty with separative relishes the patients. Vowing to rework things, he releases himself relishes the sickbay with headed to the Virginia Medical College. His unorthodox approaches order him wide awake opposition several of the medical experts with deans of the university, regardless of him attaining miscelanneous of the highest grades inside his class. Recognizing that several vagrant persons were not human being treated, because a student he coordinated the Gesundheit Clinic to analysis those who were not attaining accepted psychotherapy at the hospital. However, this chattered him wide awake sooner than the Medical Review Board because practicing without a license.

Unaltra grande prova di attore according to Robin Williams nellultimo show di Tom Shaydac, nel quale si racconta lincredibile storia (vera) di Patch Adams, prima studente di medicina, poi paziente ed infine medico inside un istituto according to malattie mentali, convinto della necessità di dover curare le persone, prima delle malattie. Il show è ispirato alle autentiche vicende del Dr Hunter Patch Adams, fondatore del Gesundheit Institute, nel North Carolina, una clinica specializzata nella cura emotiva e psicologica del paziente, prima che medica. La storia parte dalle esperienze studentesche di Patch. Il preside della facoltà, Walcott, si oppone alle sue idee strampalate, ma lentusiasmo di Patch contagia comunque altre persone, fra le quali linfermiera Joletta e i compagni di corso Truman e Carin. Intanto Patch, con il suo atteggiamento divertente ed eccentrico riesce commercial aprire un varco nelle paure dei più piccini. Combattendo contro la medicina ufficiale con la convinzione che una risata è la miglior cura il giovane rischia la propria carriera, ma riesce, alla fine, commercial ottenere appoggi e validi risultati. Arriva anche a fondare lIstituto che ancora dirige con successo e pubblica, nel 1993, un libro inside cui spiega la propria esperienza e le strane ricette che prescrive, a base di travestimenti e palloncini colorati : limportante è riuscire a stabilire un contatto di simpatia e di fiducia con i piccoli pazienti according to poter ottenere positivi risultati clinici. Questa la storia. E pensiamo che non ci poteva essere altro attore inside grado di vestire i panni di questo personaggio folle, ma estremamente deciso e motivato nelle proprie scelte di aiutare il prossimo.