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If you weren't a big fan of Patch Adams, director Tom Shadyac's 1998 dramedy starring the late Robin Williams, then welcome the real-life Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams to the club. Adams' true feelings towards the tearjerking biopic has resurfaced online and reignited the harsh criticism of the film.
On Monday morning, Reddit users on Today I Learned shared that Adams claimed the film's earnings were supposed to help fund his nonprofit healthcare organization, the Gesundheit! Institute, but that never happened. According to Wikipedia, at the 2010 Conference on World Affairs, Adams flat-out told the late and great film critic Robert Ebert, "I hate that movie."
Users, such @plague042 and @ThinkOfANameHere weren't surprised to learn that Hollywood went back on their word.
A physician first, Adams treated his patients while wearing a big red clown nose. He did this because he believed injecting humor would help alleviate the stress and make a human connection with his patients. The movie followed Adams as attended medical school, clashed with his professors, and dated his crush, Carin (Monica Potter).
In Ebert's 2013 book, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie, the renowned critic singled out the movie for its third act courtroom scene. Ebert was grossed out by the scene where the
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Patch Adams (film)
1998 film by Tom Shadyac
Patch Adams is a 1998 American biographicalcomedy-drama film directed by Tom Shadyac and starring Robin Williams (in the title role), Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bob Gunton, Daniel London, and Peter Coyote. Set in the late 1960s and early 1970s, it is loosely based on the life story of medical doctor Hunter "Patch" Adams and the book Gesundheit: Good Health Is a Laughing Matter by Adams and Maureen Mylander. The film received generally negative reviews from critics, with criticism for the sentimentality and direction. It was a box-office success and grossed $202.3 million against a $50–90 million budget.
Plot
[edit]In 1969, Hunter "Patch" Adams, after developing suicidal thoughts, admits himself to a mental institution. There, he finds that using humor, rather than doctor-centered psychotherapy, better helps his fellow patients and provides him with a new purpose in life. Because of this, he wants to become a medical doctor and swiftly leaves the facility. Two years later, he enrolls at the Medical College of Virginia as its oldest first-year student.
Adams questions the school's soulless approach to medical care, particularly why students do not work with patients until their third year, as well as the me