Patch Adams

Pros: It is a good story about human kindness and compassion. 
Cons: There are some parts of this movie that are real sad.

Patch Adams is a movie that inspired me to get into the medical field. I cried everytime I watched it.  I believe his theory about treating the patient as a human other than the disease or problem that they have.  Patch (Robin Williams) uses ...

Pros: Everything about this movie is great. A true story also.
Cons: There is none I could find.

When you need something to show you that life isn't as bad as it may seem then this could possibly do the trick !! Feeling down and out Patch Adams (Robin Williams) books himself into a mental hospital, which after a while being there realises life isn't ...

Pros: Interesting, based on true story, hilarious
Cons: A few slow parts

Robin Williams has to be funniest man who ever lived! Most physical comedy turns into 'stupid funny' and I hate that! But his really doesn't. Maybe he isn't always so happy in real life but you could have fooled me! So I love anything with Robin Williams ...

Pros: Lots to laugh about.
Cons: One depressing scene though truthful.

Though there have been improvements in the medical community the progress is still slow. The story of Patch Adams is about a man who tries to improve the current methods of medical treatment at his medical school which was based on professional distance ...

Pros: great acting, cute scenes, based on a TRUE story!
Cons: Robin Williams is his usual self... slight crude humor

A couple of weeks ago, I was sitting in my CNA class, and my instructor told me we were going to watch Patch Adams. All I knew about this movie, is that Robin Williams plays the leading role, and he is definitely not one of my favorite actors. So when ...

Pros: children from Make A Wish used in the pediatric ward, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Cons: Monica Potter miscast, character all too familiar to Robin Williams fans

I like Robin Willaims as an actor, truly I do. He has been in so many good roles in his career and has done some excellent stand-up work as well. The problem is that too many of the roles he chooses really don’t challenge him. Instead, he seems to ...

Pros: A fun film with a good message.
Cons: A tad manipulative.

Patch Adams Comedy/Drama Universal Studios 1998 116 minutes, PG 13 rating (mild language, crude humour) Director - Tom Shadyac (Bruce Almighty, Liar, Liar, The Nutty Professor) Based on the book Gesundheit! by Patch Adams ...

Pros: Patch is a likeable dreamer. Comedy.
Cons: Sad story throughout overshadows the funny moments, Patch is a bit psychotic.

When we heard that "Patch Adams" was coming to theaters, my husband and I were interested in the story line -- it was based on real events, and seemed like a funny flick. After all, Robin Williams portrays Patch, a depressed widower who decides to...

Pros: Great flick, very heart felt
Cons: not much to con on

I missed this film in the initial theater run. Again, it was one of those films I got so excited to see, but didn't remember to see it. Well, I wanted to rent a DVD one night and it was available.

The movie "Patch Adams" is based on a real...

Pros: Inspirational, funny
Cons: None

I found this movie to be really inspirational. It is great what this man did with his life. He had moved seven times in one year, and held a number of different jobs. The year is 1969 and Hunter Adams admits himself into a mental hospital because he...

Pros: A very funny and touching movie.
Cons: Unfortunately, Patch's girlfriend Corinne's life was taken tragically.

The first time I saw this movie was the day after Christmas in 1998, and after watching this movie, I was very touched by Robin Williams' performance as a medical student. He had a very great sense of humor, even though, some of his fellow students have...

Pros: Entertaining and Realistic
Cons: The sad parts are true too

One hour and fifty six minutes that will exercise
your emotions to their extreme limits. This movie
is a biographical compression of experiences of Dr.
Patch Adams. Every one of the topics depicted on
the movie happened to...

Pros: Funny, sad, important, Robin is funny as usual
Cons: Perhaps SOME overused cliches, none that I remember till seeing other reviews

I recently read some of the pessimistic reviews on Patch Adams and felt a little resentful about the negativism towards it, as a film. I know when the movie came out it was bombed by the critics, claiming Cliches everywhere, unrealistic, terrible...

Pros: An appropriately over-the-top performance by Robin Williams
Cons: Numerous sugar-coated moments, cliched characters, by-the-numbers storytelling

It's a shame when a film comes so close to getting it right. Patch Adams seems to know what it's doing and where it's going for so much of the time that its gradual descent into cheap, manipulative melodrama is a far greater tragedy than...

Pros: Very funny and emotionally moving film. Robin Williams is in top form!
Cons: Some may find it sappy? But I don't think it is...

"Patch Adams" is a wonderful film full of emotion, empathy and compassion for everyday human life. Some find this movie cliched, and the humour forced but it's not, because it is reality. The movie stars Robin Williams as the title character, the movie...