Patch Adams

Patch Adams

  • Director: Tom Shadyac
  • Writer: Patch Adams,Maureen Mylander,Steve Oedekerk
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: December 25, 1998
  • Runtime: 1h 55min
  • Sound mix: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
  • Aspect ratio: 2.39 : 1
  • Also known as: 心靈點滴
  • "Patch Adams" is a Comedy film directed by Tom Sodiak and starring Robin McLaurim Williams , Monica Louise Brokaw , Philip Seymour Hoffman , and Irma P. Hall . It was released in the United States on October 21, 1998. 

    Details

    • Release date December 25, 1998
    • Filming locations Biltmore Estate - 1 Approach Road, Asheville, North Carolina, USA
    • Production companies Universal Pictures, Blue Wolf Productions, Farrell/Minoff

    Box office

    Budget

    $90,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $135,026,902

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $25,262,280

    Gross worldwide

    $202,292,902

    Movie reviews

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    • By Xzavier 2022-12-28 07:50:13

      Look up at the stars, keep your feet on the ground

      How to be a good doctor? As a doctor, you must be a listener and a carer. Hunter suffers from mild depression and goes to a sanatorium for treatment. But he found that many patients are not mentally abnormal, but no one cares about their problems. The hospital treats them like animals locked in a fence. They don't care or greet them. They only give food and formal medical treatment. The psychiatrist just asked questions like a questionnaire machine, without the attention of his eyes, and...

    • By Eldon 2022-12-22 22:52:08

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      Adam's father died when he was nine years old. His father was not often at home as a soldier. He told Adam two weeks before his death that he seemed to have lost his soul in the Korean War. Adam moved seven times last year and changed a few jobs. When Adam lost his life in middle age, he wanted to commit suicide, so he decided to go to a mental hospital. He found that medication alone could not solve Rudi’s problem of not daring to go to the toilet. Adam helped him drive away the...

    • By Mylene 2022-12-21 06:20:14

      Stick to "obsession"

          All of life is a coming home.
          All the restless heats of the world, all trying to find a way home. The
          whole life is a process of coming home . Every moving heart is looking for a way home.

          This film is taken from a true story in the 1960s and 1970s. "Want to be a doctor" is the "obsession" of the movie protagonist Patch Adams after he recovered from mental illness. Later he entered the Virginia Medical School, but The traditional concept in the...

    • By Lila 2022-12-19 21:14:06

      You who died

      The soul catcher of the Death Poetry Society conveyed warmth to this soul bit by bit. When searching for this movie, he used a certain page to write that the audience would not dare to watch this movie in the future. After watching this movie, I think I understand. Listening to the opening monologue over and over again thinking about what another comedy master Jin Carrey said. When asked: "Why does a depressed patient perform so many excellent comedies? How can a person who is unhappy...

    • By Danielle 2022-12-14 18:49:09

      Douban asked me to write a movie review

      How many fingers do u see? You rested on the 7th day. Maybe you should spend that time on some compassion. You know what? The people who come here are all patients and doctors, and everyone takes care of and supports each other. The core of the Segu model, simply put, is that all the people who come here are both students and teachers. Everyone learns from each other and supports each other. Medical care and education, also affected by the extremely mechanized narrowness of...

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    • By Lauriane 2023-09-28 09:53:43

      An ideal story, but it turns out to be true. Is it because I'm old and don't believe it...

    • By Kaci 2023-09-27 05:19:50

      Since it is called a doctor, it must be different from other...

    • By Hassie 2023-09-21 18:16:51

      The best movie I've seen recently, and it's as real as...

    • By Jillian 2023-09-20 10:12:23

      Robin is worthy of being a master of warm-hearted movies. In essence, he is actually a psychiatrist. The heroine who looks at the heroine is really miserable. The only thing wrong is that Robin can be the heroine's father at this...

    • By Hope 2023-09-04 01:34:54

      I really like this kind of doctor, how creative and warm~ It turns out that I don't like to use the death of my beloved to increase the dramatic conflict, it's too hurtful! After knowing that this is a real thing, I am relieved, life is the most impermanent! The graduation uniform at the end is too cute,...

    Background creation

    This is a true story from the 1960s and 1970s. Adams was a medical student in Virginia. His slogan was "Cure the patient, not just cure the disease", which caused great controversy at that time. Mike Farell, the producer of this film, also has a close relationship with Adams. When Mike was making a TV series, Adams happened to be the medical consultant of the series. This time, Robin Williams, who is good at expressing wit and kindness...
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    Movie quotes

    • Corinne Fisher: When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched.

    • Hunter Patch Adams: [imitating a skeleton] I have a boner. Wait, I am a boner.

    • Hunter Patch Adams: Death. To die. To expire. To pass on. To perish. To peg out. To push up daisies. To push up posies. To become extinct. Curtains, deceased, Demised, departed And defunct. Dead as a doornail. Dead as a herring. Dead as a mutton. Dead as nits. The last breath. Paying a debt to nature. The big sleep. God's way of saying, "Slow down."

      Bill Davis: To check out.

      Hunter Patch Adams: To shuffle off this mortal coil.

      Bill Davis: To head for the happy hunting ground.

      Hunter Patch Adams: To blink for an exceptionally long period of time.

      Bill Davis: To find oneself without breath.

      Hunter Patch Adams: To be the incredible decaying man.

      Bill Davis: Worm buffet.

      Hunter Patch Adams: Kick the bucket.

      Bill Davis: Buy the farm.

      Hunter Patch Adams: Take the cab.

      Bill Davis: Cash in your chips.