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Patch Adams
Movie Stats & Links |
| Starring: |
Robin Williams, Monica Potter
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| MPAA Rated: |
PG-13 |
| Released By: |
Universal
Pictures
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| Web Site: |
www.patchadams.com
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| Kiddie Movie: |
A couple of adult topics, but alright
nonetheless.
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| Date Movie: |
Sure.
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| Gratuitous Sex: |
Nope.
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| Gratuitous
Violence: |
Implied but not gratuitous.
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| Action: |
Nope.
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| Laughs: |
Lots.
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| Memorable
Scene: |
The gynecologists showing up to their
conference.
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| Memorable
Quote: |
Lots of one-liners.
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| Directed By: |
Tom Shadyac
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| Produced By: |
Barry Kemp, Mike Farrell, Marvin Minoff, Charles
Newirth
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Patch Adams
A Movie Review |
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I read every review blasting "Patch
Adams." They ranged from saying it's the same old Robin
Williams to complaining or questioning who would want a
doctor such as Patch to treat them. I don't know, but the
movie made me laugh, and that was good enough for me.
Robin Williams plays Patch, a man distraught over losing
his wife, who checks himself into the mental ward. It is
there he discovers that doctors may be book smart, but they
have no patient's smarts. He decides he wants to be a doctor
and heads to medical school.
It is in medical school that Patch truly realizes
something is wrong with the healing institution, and sets
out to show that a doctor can help patients while still
working to keep a smile on their faces.
Sure, there's a love interest in the movie, a quirky
little way Patch overcomes his being distraught a second
time, and Robin Williams is a little over the top, but the
movie is a comedy, with a message that doctors could be
people too if they only try a little.
I suppose there might be more to this movie than my brief
little review up there, but I don't think I've laughed as
hard in a long time as when the gynecologists show up for
their conference at the university. I laughed, I almost
cried, and I laughed again. I was taken through the
emotional gamut for "Patch Adams," and screw the other
critics, I enjoyed the movie.
And as far as the complaints of not wanting a doctor like
Patch, I am just the opposite, although maybe not on such an
over the top scale. My case in point - a little over a year
ago I was in the emergency room for my gall bladder - it
wanted out. I was nervous, I was scared, but I tried to keep
my spirits up with some bad jokes. The lady who did my
ultrasound laughed, the nurse chuckled, but the doctor, a
nice guy, didn't seem to find it amusing. Maybe it's the
litigious society we are living in keeping the doctors from
smiling, maybe it is the old institution of medicine, but in
any case a smile or chuckle can help relieve a thousand
nerves.
Oh well, I give "Patch Adams" 4 stars out of 5. I liked
it.
That's it for this one, I'm The Dude on the Right!! L8R!! |
