We miss you! Sad and funny at once. A pure "underrated" classic one of '98's best! "Patch Adams" made me want to spray the screen with Lysol. Robin Williams is a genius as a creative actor in this movie. Don't have an account? Written by The story is inspiring and touching. Get full reviews, ratings, and advice delivered weekly to your inbox. Gets a little too preachy. It also champions Christ-like attitudes and behaviors as it challenges modern medical treatment and impersonal institutes of medicine. Patch Adams is an earnest and caring medical student, driven by a desire to help others and ease their suffering through humor and compassion. Bad, bad movie! Movieguide's reviews, videos, Date Night and Family Night apps are available for both iOS and Android. Common Sense and other associated names and logos are trademarks of Common Sense Media, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (FEIN: 41-2024986). Based on a real story, and featuring Robin Williams revisiting his comic potential in the title role, PATCH ADAMS provides lots of love and warmth. Full Review. By creating an account, you agree to the Privacy Policy Bring Kleenex. The very short Theme song from this movie has become our favorite short piano piece. I thought it was crap, same as everything else Robin williams has done. Parents and caregivers: Set limits for violence and more with Plus. But for some reason I'd see it again. Parent reviews for Patch Adams. Screamfest LA (2020 Edition) Click here to become a monthly partner and receive a movie for free! We display the minimum age for which content is developmentally appropriate. The Virtual Fantastic Fest Celebration of 2020   Peter Coyote Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2019. I liked it better when it was called "Awakenings". Wondering if Patch Adams is OK for your kids? In conclusion, although the production quality of the movie suffers from too much background music and some scenes that seem a bit forced and overproduced, PATCH ADAMS nevertheless is a wonderful dramatization of Hunter “Patch” Adams, a real man who is re-making the Gesundheit Clinic right now and has a waiting list of doctors hoping to escape the impersonal world of hospitals and join up. But Patch won the appeal. Now News! For my movie assignment I decided to review the film, Patch Adams. I purchased both the movie and later the sound track. L, Gary Sinise and the Gary Sinise Foundation recently blessed Washington firefighters with 500 care packages after the first responders battled the larg. Talent for the Game by Jack Sommersby Do you enjoy articles like this? Films I Neglected To Review: Independents Day The best Williams' movies are those where he doesn't seem quite this stuck on himself. Patch Adams is determined to become a medical doctor because he enjoys helping people. It extracts tears individually by liposuction, without anesthesia. True-story medical tale is made shallow and sentimental. There are various scenes where the director lets him go off on his trademark improvisational routines. Total Crap: 30.46% Dragnet by Jack Sommersby This movie was kickass, anybody recognize the poem he read in it?   Michael Jeter Watching Patch Adams is like being bedridden and suffering the further indignity of a caregiver who is self-righteous and thinks he's a comedian. Awesome: 24.5% sarcasm=unintelligent. Patch Adams: Official Clip - Revealing Graduation, Patch Adams: Official Clip - He At Least Listened, Patch Adams: Official Clip - To Be a Great Doctor. Movieguide® is a 501c3 non-profit. In one scene, Hunter places a Band-Aid over a hole in a paper coffee cup for one man, and the man calls him “Patch.” Hunter christens himself Patch, checks out of the hospital and checks himself into the fictional medical school, Virginia Medical University, with the goal of helping others. In Tom Shadyac's 1998 film "Patch Adams," Robin Williams plays a doctor who thinks play is part of healing. JUST BE FUNNY DAMMIT! So this is a great movie. Loved the invisible squirrels! Throughout it all, an unexpected death occurs, and Patch gets angry with God and almost quits everything, but rediscovers his passion, and continues his medical mission. In time, Patch and Carin develop a romance. Films I Neglected To Review: What's The Matter With Kids These Days? He tells the Dean that patients need compassion, no matter their personality or differences. Insultingly, incredibly bad. From the movie Patch Adams starting Robin Williams. Starring: Robin Williams, Monica Potter, Daniel London, Philip Seymour Hoffman, & Bob Gunton, Producer: Barry Kemp, Mike Farrell, Marvin Minoff, & Charles Newirth. Two years ago, singer-songwriter Lauren Daigle released her record, Look Up Child. Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. Can you say "infection"?? subscribe to this feed, "If you've never seen anything like it before, you'll love it. How to exploit dying children for fun & profit. Patch Adams (1998 Film) › Customer reviews; Customer reviews. Films I Neglected To Review: Hope-Less Romantics   Robin Williams Editor's note: Since "Patch Adams" has obviously been made for an audience that has never seen a movie before, the following review is our helpful attempt to guide that audience. Some jokes include some sexual elements -- like a reference to a penis and a masturbation joke. “It has been an honor to be home for Tim Allen an, Country singer and BRINGING UP BATES star Lawson Bates shared how he’s praying for our nation. Parents need to know that much of Patch Adams takes place in a hospital and includes many emotionally intense scenes involving dying or sick patients. There is also an off-screen murder of one of the lead characters and past sexual abuse is strongly alluded to. No GWH, but it was worth my three bucks. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Your privacy is important to us. Together, with a few other medical students, they decide to open up an unauthorized, non-licensed clinic called the Gesundheit Clinic in West Virginia which treats people with love, laughter, humor, and medicine. This page works best with JavaScript. Worth A Look: 17.22% Possibly. Aside from this, the film does have some profanity, and Robin Williams' free-associative humor veers into the occasional off-color sexual reference and innuendo, plus one scene where his naked bottom is exposed. If the real-life Robin Williams were a doctor, he would be the real-life Patch Adams, who believes that doctors should treat the patient, not the disease, and that sick, frightened people need to feel that those who take care of them are paying attention. Not hip. The true story of a Virginia medical student who breaks all the rules by daring to proclaim that the best medicine for patients is love, laughter and play. The themes of PATCH ADAMS are enduring and true. Films I Neglected To Review: Manderley Balls. J.R.R. Synopsis: Patch Adams is a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. The film shows the importance and beneficial effects of laughter, and the positive results that can emerge when doctors see their patients as more than just their disease. You can still see all customer reviews for the product. and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango. The star rating reflects overall quality. Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh shared on his radio show that he relies on his relationship with Jesus as he battles Stage 4 lung cancer. This film wants to be loved so much, it pleads with us to believe its black and white message. It works. Overall, I thought this was a GREAT movie... a little overly sentimental at times, but ... loved it,it was happy,sad,funny,more dr',should rememberpt's are people, Big, strong men can't possibly admit that they like a movie that makes them weepy..