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Patch Adams is a 1998 semi-biographical comedy-drama film starring Robin Williams, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Bob Gunton. Directed by Tom Shadyac, it is based on the life story of Dr. Hunter Patch Adams and his book, Gesundheit: Good Health is a Laughing Matter, by Adams and Maureen Mylander. Despite being poorly received by critics 1 and Dr. Adams himself, the film was a box-office success, grossing over twice its budget in the United States alone.
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5.1 Adams thoughts on Williams
A suicidal Hunter Patch Adams Robin Williams commits himself into a mental institution. Once there, he finds that using humor, as opposed to the indifferent sessions provided by their doctor, to help his fellow patients gives him a purpose in life. Because of this he wants to become a medical doctor and two years later enrolls at the Medical College of Virginia now known as VCU School of Medicine as the oldest first year student. He questions the school s soulless approach to medical care and clashes with the school s Dean Walcott Bob Gunton, who believes that doctors must treat patients as patients and not bond with them as people. Because of this and incidents such as setting up a giant pair of legs during an obstetric conference, he is expelled from the medical school, although he is later reinstated due to his methods actually helping patients improve. Adams encourages medical students to work closely with nurses, learn interviewing skills early, and argues that death should be treated with dignity and sometimes even humor.
Adams begins a friendship with fellow student Carin Fisher Monica Potter, and develops his idea for a medical clinic built around his philosophy of treating patients using humor and compassion. With the help of Arthur Mendelson Harold Gould, a wealthy man who was a patient whom Patch met while in the mental hospital, he purchases 105 acres 425,000 m in West Virginia to construct the future Gesundheit. Institute. Together with Carin, medical student Truman Schiff Daniel London, and some old friends, he renovates an old cottage into a clinic. When they get the clinic running, they treat patients without medical insurance and perform comedy sketches for them.
Carin and Patch s friendship soon turns into romance. When she tells him that she had been molested as a child, Patch comforts her and reassures her that she can overcome her pain to help others. Encouraged, Carin wants to help a disturbed patient, Lawrence Larry Silver Douglas Roberts. However, Larry murders Carin then kills himself. Patch is devastated and guilt-ridden by Carin s death, and begins to question the goodness in humanity. Standing on a cliff, he contemplates suicide and questions God about what happened. He then sees a butterfly which reminds him of Carin s telling him earlier how she always wished she was a caterpillar that could someday transform itself and fly away. The butterfly lands on his medical bag and on his shirt before flying away. This reminds Patch of Carin and revives his spirits, and he decides to continue his work in her honor.
He is expelled from medical school a second time for running a clinic and practicing medicine without a license. He files a grievance with the state medical board at the advice of his former medical school roommate, uptight Mitch Roman Philip Seymour Hoffman. Patch is able to convince the board that he did his best to help the people that came to him, and as a doctor it is his responsibility to treat the spirit as well as the body. The board accepts Patch s methods and decides to allow him to graduate. He receives a standing ovation from the packed hearing room.
At graduation, Patch receives his diploma and bows to the professors and the audience, revealing that he is not wearing any pants under his gown.
Robin Williams as Dr. Hunter Patch Adams, initially a mental patient, who wishes to change the way doctors think and treat their patients.
Daniel London as Truman Schiff, Patch s best friend and most loyal follower, in medical school.
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Mitch Roman, Patch s uptight roommate, who initially clashes with Patch, but later joins his cause.
Monica Potter as Carin Fisher, a serious medical student, who is later touched by Patch s passion.
Bob Gunton as Dean Walcott, rigid dean of the Medical School, who locks horns with Patch right from the start.
Josef Sommer as Dr. Eaton, professor at Medical School, who does appreciate Patch s efforts.
Harold Gould as Arthur Mendelson, wealthy mathematician who is in the mental hospital, and initially coin s Patch s nickname.
Harve Presnell as Dean Anderson
Richard Kiley as Dr. Titan, humorless doctor at the mental hospital. Colleague of Dean Walcott.
Peter Coyote as Bill Davis, dying, ill-tempered patient in the hospital, who eventually bonds with Patch, and accepts his fate with dignity.
Douglas Roberts as Lawrence Larry Silver
The film was shot in three locations: Treasure Island, California near San Francisco, Asheville North Carolina, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A diner in Point Richmond a district in Richmond, California served as the University Diner. Several interior classroom scenes were filmed on the campus of UC Berkeley.
The producers worked very closely with the Make-A-Wish Foundation. For this reason, all but two of the ill children acting in this film actually have cancer. 2
The film has several major departures from Adams real history. One is that the character of Carin is fictional, but is analogous to a real life friend of Adams a man who was murdered under similar circumstances. Another difference is the then 47-year-old Robin Williams portrays Adams as enrolling in medical school very late in his life, his older age even being brought up in dialogue. In reality, Adams started medical school immediately and his educational progress was quite normal for a physician: He graduated high school at 18, college at 22, and medical school at 26.
The film was released on December 25, 1998 in the United States and Canada and grossed 25.2 million in 2,712 theaters its opening weekend, ranking 1 at the box office. After its first weekend, it was the 2 film for four weeks. 3 The film grossed US 202,292,902 worldwide 135,026,902 in the United States and Canada and 67,266,000 in other territories. 4
The review aggregator Metacritic reported that the film averaged a rating of 25, 5 and currently has a score of 23 on Rotten Tomatoes based on 56 reviews with the consensus reading, Syrupy performances and directing make this dramedy all too obvious. 6 Noted Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert gave the film one and a half stars out of four and wrote, Patch Adams made me want to spray the screen with Lysol. This movie is shameless. It s not merely a tearjerker. It extracts tears individually by liposuction, without anesthesia. 7 Robert K. Elder of the Chicago Tribune called Monica Potter the best thing about the otherwise dopey Patch Adams. 8
It received Two Thumbs Down on the television series Siskel Ebert, with particular criticism towards the character of Patch, whom they viewed as overbearing, obnoxious and sanctimonious as well as noting that they would never trust a doctor who acted like Adams does. Gene Siskel said I would rather turn my head and cough than see another moment of Patch Adams again. 9 He later singled it out as the worst film of 1998; it was the last film he gave a Worst of to before his death in 1999.
Marc Shaiman s score was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score. The film was also nominated two Golden Globe Awards, for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Robin Williams.
Reaction of the real Patch Adams edit
The real Patch Adams has been openly critical of the film, saying that it sacrificed much of his message in order to make a selling film. He also said that out of all aspects of his life and activism, the film portrayed him merely as a funny doctor. 10 At a Conference of World Affairs, he told film critic Roger Ebert, I hate that movie. 11
During a speech in 2010 at the Mayo Clinic, Patch Adams said, The film promised to build our hospital. None of the profits from the film ever came to us, and so, basically 40 years into this work, we are still trying to build our hospital. 12
Adams thoughts on Williams edit
Robin Williams made 21 million for four months of pretending to be me, in a very simplistic version, and did not give 10 to my free hospital. Patch Adams, the person, would have, if I had Robin s money, given all 21 million to a free hospital in a country where 80 million cannot get care. 13
However, in another interview, Adams did clarify that he did not hate Williams, 10 and Williams actively supported St. Jude Children s Research Hospital for several years. 14
After Williams s death in 2014, Adams said,
The terrible news of the passing of Robin Williams reached me here in the Peruvian Amazon late Monday night with tremendous sadness. Surrounded by over 100 friends and clowns on our annual clown trip, we mourn this tragic loss and continue to treasure his comic genius. Robin Williams was a wonderful, kind and generous man. One important thing I remember about his personality is that he was unassuming he never acted as if he was powerful or famous. Instead, he was always tender and welcoming, willing to help others with a smile or a joke. Robin was a brilliant comedian there is no doubt. He was a compassionate, caring human being. While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life Patch Adams–I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew. Also, I would like to point out, Robin would be especially kind toward my children when they would visit the set. Contrary to how many people may view him, he actually seemed to me to be an introvert. When he invited me and my family into his home, he valued peace and quiet, a chance to breathe a chance to get away from the fame that his talent has brought him. While early in life, he turned to drug use and alcohol to escape, he replaced the addiction with moments of solitude to help cope with the stress that fame brought. This world is not kind to people who become famous, and the fame he had garnered was a nightmare. While saddened, we are left with the consequences of his death. I m enormously grateful for his wonderful performance of my early life, which has allowed the Gesundheit Institute to continue and expand our work. We extend our blessings to his family and friends in this moment of sadness. Thank you for all you ve given this world Robin, thank you my friend. 15
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Hunter Doherty Patch Adams born May 28, 1945 is an American physician, comedian, social activist, clown, and author. He founded the Gesundheit.
Patch Adams is a 1998 semi-biographical comedy-drama film starring Robin Williams, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Bob Gunton. Directed by Tom Shadyac.
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First, I wanted to go out and engage the world as this happy soul. I started clowning in public and have done it daily since. Second, I set out to quench my thirst for knowledge by studying everything I could get my hands on. In order to become an instrument for peace, justice and care I read thousands of books. I needed to understand so I could create solutions. I became interested in whole systems thinking, looking for ways to integrate it with the hospital-community concepts that emerged in medical school. In my imagination I envisioned a communal eco-village hospital that would address every problem of the way healthcare was delivered in one model. I wrote it up in a paper in March, 1971 and this was the basis of what became the Gesundheit Institute.
I met my wife, Linda, in my last year of medical school Medical College of Virginia, class of 1971. She was instrumental in the early years of the hospital s functioning and I cannot imagine it without her. Together we had two sons, Atomic and Lars.
With an amazing group of friends we created the Gesundheit Institute, a pilot hospital model, which we operated for twelve years out of our communal home. We were always open for any kind of problem. Our policy was: 1 no charge 2 no health insurance reimbursement 3 no malpractice insurance 4 3 to 4 hour initial interview with the patient 5 home as hospital 6 integration of all the healing arts 7 integration of medicine with performance arts, arts and crafts, nature, agriculture, education, recreation and social service 8 the health of the staff is as important as the health of the patient.
We did this for 12 years and saw thousands of patients. The experience was enchanting. Unfortunately we were so radical that we couldn t find funding. The staff itself paid to practice. In 1984, we realized that we couldn t continue operating this way. We needed a facility. In this context we decided to go public and I quickly became busy as a speaker.
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