Patch Adams [videorecording] / Universal Pictures presents a Blue Wolf-Farrell/Minoff-Bungalow 78 production ; screenplay by Steve Odekerk ; produced by Barry Kemp, Mike Farrell, Marvin Minoff, Charles Newirth ; directed by Tom Shadyac.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 20586 | UniversalLanguage: English, French Original language: English Publication details: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios, [1999]Description: 1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0783234074
- Music by Marc Shaiman ; co-producers, Steve Dedekerk, Devorah Moos-Hankin.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| DVD | Phillipsburg Free Public Library | DVDs | New Movies | DVD PAT | In-Process | 36748002658534 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The fact-based story of an unconventional physician who attempted to heal patients with laughter, based on his own book and mixing equal doses of scatological humor and pathos. Robin Williams stars as Hunter Adams, a troubled young man who commits himself to a mental institution in the late 1960s. His experiences there convince Adams to become a doctor, and he enrolls in medical school, where he is appalled at the cold, clinical professionalism that alienates patients from their caregivers. Determined to provide emotional and spiritual relief as well as medicine, Adams clowns around for his patients, getting to know them personally. Although his efforts seem to work wonders and the hospital nursing staff is grateful for the levity Adams provides, his methods alienate his uptight roommate Mitch (Philip Seymour Hoffman) as well as the staff and faculty of his school. Adams perseveres, however, even starting his own low-cost rural clinic called the Gesundheit Institute, and wooing a pretty fellow student, Carin (Monica Potter). Tragedy strikes, and Adams' career is put in jeopardy, forcing him to defend his style and philosophy before a board of jurists determined to bar him from practicing medicine. Patch Adams (1998) was produced by former M*A*S*H (1972-83) star Mike Farrell, who met the real-life Adams when the offbeat doctor served as an advisor to the actor's popular TV series. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
Includes French dubbed version.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1998.
Based on the novel Gesundheit! : bringing good health to you, the medical system, and society through physician service, complementary therapies, humor, and joy by Hunter Doherty Adams.
Music by Marc Shaiman ; co-producers, Steve Dedekerk, Devorah Moos-Hankin.
Robin Williams, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bob Gunton, Daniel London, Peter Coyote.
Meet Patch Adams, a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just about anything to make his patients laugh-- even if it means risking his own career. Based on a true story.
Rated PG-13.
DVD, Dolby surround sound.
Closed-captioned.