Patch Adams
Based on the true account of a misfit medical student whose approach to healing causes headaches in medical establishment but works well on patients.
18 February 1921, New York City, New York, USA
24 July 1956, Los Angeles, California, USA
10 October 1941, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
15 September 1954, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
19 June 1976, Santa Monica, California, USA
11 January 1955, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
1 December 1926, Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA
28 July 1944, York, Pennsylvania, USA
9 March 1942, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
13 August 1953, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
21 August 1943, Houston, Texas, USA
2 July 1934, North Lewisburg, Ohio, USA
24 August 1914, San Francisco, California, USA
August 18, 2007
Has obviously been made for an audience that has never seen a movie before.
February 08, 2003
...Formulaic from the word go, with so many trite, overused devices that it could serve as a primer for 'things to avoid when making an original movie.'
December 27, 2010
True-story medical tale is made shallow and sentimental.
January 01, 2000
It extracts tears individually by liposuction, without anesthesia!
June 18, 2012
Shadyac underscores Williams' comic routines with superfluous and frankly relentless reaction shots of patients and hospital staff alike crumpling with laughter.
January 01, 2000
A movie of depth and delight!
June 24, 2006
An overdose of sentimental claptrap, underscored by Marc Shaiman's clichéd string arrangements.
September 02, 2009
Indulges to the hilt every obnoxious, hyperactive, oh-what-I-wouldn't-give-for-a-tranquilizer-gun aspect of Robin Williams' performing style.
January 01, 2000
Has some very funny moments, but they're all drowned out by an overbearingly sentimental script.
January 01, 2000
A sure-fire crowd-pleaser!
May 20, 2008
Williams pulls out all the stops in a lead role that gives him carte blanche to careen between extremes of silliness and sentimentality; he tries too hard, too obviously, much like the pic itself.

