Directed by Tom Shadyac ; produced by Mike Farrell, Barry Kemp, Marvin Minoff, Charles Newirth ; screenplay by Steve Oedekerk ; cinematography by Phedon Papamichael ; original music by Marc Shaiman ; film editing by Don Zimmerman.

Robin Williams, Daniel London, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bob Gunton, Josef Sommer, Irma P. Hall, Frances Lee McCain, Harvey Presnell, Daniella Kuhn, Jake Bowen, Peter Coyote, James Greene, Michael Jeter, Harold Gould, Richard Kiley.

Fact-based story of Hunter "Patch" Adams, the founder of the Gesundheit Clinic, a clinic which deals with their patients with humor and pathos. The film starts in 1969 with Hunter admitting himself voluntarily as a patient to a mental institution. Once there, he finds that helping his fellow inmates there gives him a purpose in life. Thus inspired, he leaves the asylum and vows to become a doctor to help people professionally. However, what he finds at medical school is a sickeningly callous philosophy that advocates an arms-length attitude to the patients that does not address their emotional needs or the quality of their lives. Patch Adams is determined to find a better way to help them, although the consequences of his defiance of the rules and the authorities are severe. - IMDB

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