• Starring: Robin Williams
  • Summary: Robin Williams is Patch Adams - a doctor who believes in laughter as medicine and will do just about anything to make his patients laugh - even if it means risking his own career. (Universal)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 21
  2. Negative: 10 out of 21
  1. A perfect vehicle for Robin Williams. He again plays the compassionate, manic clown that has been his main character throughout his movie career. And audiences love his wild end runs.
  2. Reviewed by: Darren Bignell
    60
    So the prognosis is generally positive, though there may be a touch too much sugar in this motion picture panacea, which is, in places, shamelessly sentimental to an extraordinarily manipulative degree.
  3. 38
    Made me want to spray the screen with Lysol. This movie is shameless. It's not merely a tearjerker. It extracts tears individually by liposuction, without anesthesia.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 16
  3. Negative: 7 out of 16
  1. Harry
    10
    Nominated for two Golden Globe awards including best Picture (musical or comedy), “Patch Adams” is by far, one of the most heartbreaking comedies or hilarious tragedies I have ever seen. After reading a few reviews of the site, I noticed that most critics bashed this film because it was against the medicine techniques. Well, to those naïve persons, I have to tell you that “Patch Adams” is based on the autobiography of the person of the same name. I rarely cry in a film and I cried in this one so that gives it even more credit. Plus, the performances are top notch, especially Robin William’s believable interpretation of Patch. All I’ll tell you, ignore the critics, go watch this film. Take it seriously and cry of emotion. Expand
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  2. BrianG
    10
    A very heartwarming movie. Not to mention funny as hell, of course, since Robbin Williams is the main actor. Ignore the ciritics on this one, afterall, it's their job to be critical. Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. GilbertMulroneycakesFM
    1
    No. This is a very well made annoying film. I've often said that movies NEED to be manipulative, but they don't need to kick you in the crotch to make you cry. I'm really here to defend Robin Williams, who's a damn good actor and turns out a great performance in the irritating central role of a doomed movie. Not enough to save it, because his good performance pushes with the tide instead of against it. You want a good film with Robin Williams in a serious role, rent Good Will Hunting or...there is another one. Awakenings, that's it. Or, at a push, What Dreams May Come, similarly manipulative to this film, but with imagination and life to balance it out. Expand
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