Patch Adams (1998)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.2/10   

Director:

Tom Shadyac

Escritores (WGA):

Patch Adams (book) and
Maureen Mylander (book) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

25 diciembre 1998 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Drama

Frase comercial:

Based On A True Story.

Plot:

A medical student in the 70's that treated patients, illegally, using humor.

Plot Keywords:

Medical | Doctor | Hospital | Student | Nurse

Premios:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 6 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

True life story?

US TV Schedule:

Thur. July 16	11:00 AM	USA
Fri. July 17	2:00 AM	USA

Reparto

Robin Williams	...	Patch Adams
Daniel London	...	Truman
Monica Potter	...	Carin
Philip Seymour Hoffman	...	Mitch
Bob Gunton	...	Dean Walcott
Josef Sommer	...	Dr. Eaton
Irma P. Hall	...	Joletta
Frances Lee McCain	...	Judy
Harve Presnell	...	Dean Anderson
Daniella Kuhn	...	Adelane
Peter Coyote	...	Bill Davis
James Greene	...	Bile
Michael Jeter	...	Rudy
Harold Gould	...	Arthur Mendelson
Bruce Bohne	...	Trevor Beene

También conocida como:

Patch Adams (Argentina) (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some strong language and crude humor.

Duración:

115 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | Canada:PG (Ontario) | South Korea:12 | Philippines:G | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Chile:14 | Finland:K-8 | France:U | Germany:6 (w) | Netherlands:AL | Norway:7 | Peru:14 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | Spain:T | Sweden:7 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12 | USA:PG-13

Locaciones de Filmación:

Asheville, North Carolina, USA

Compañía:

Blue Wolf

Trivialidades:

Filmed partially at the University of North Carolina. Robin Williams did stand up comedy for some classes that were in session while filming.

Errores:

Personal o Equipo Visible: Camera and boom equipment are visible (and in motion) in the door window as the gynecologists are approaching the door between the paper mache "legs" that Patch Adams prepared for their arrival.

Citas:

[first lines]
Hunter Patch Adams: All of life is a coming home. Salesmen, secretaries, coal miners, beekeepers, sword swallowers, all of us. All the restless hearts of the world, all trying to find a way home. It's hard to describe what I felt like then. Picture yourself walking for days in the driving snow; you don't even know you're walking in circles. The heaviness of your legs in the drifts, your shouts disappearing into the wind. How small you can feel, and how far away home can be.
Hunter Patch Adams: Home. The dictionary defines it as both a place of origin and a goal or destination. And the storm? The storm was all in my mind. Or as the poet Dante put it: In the middle of the journey of my life, I found myself in a dark wood, for I had lost the right path. Eventually I would find the right path, but in the most unlikely place.

Conexiones de Película:

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Banda de Sonido:

Into the Mystic

True life story?

I recently bought the DVD of Patch Adams, and, after watching the movie was some what impressed by his "hard life". After all, the girl of his dreams dies. She has had a horrible past with hints of abuse etc.....But afterwards, I listened to the directer's notes about the story. So much of this movie was "poetic licence". Patch Adam's did not have a girlfriend who was murdered. Admittedly, in "real life" Patch Adam's best friend, a male was murdered, but why not tell this true story as it happened - not try to pull heart strings by making up a female who never existed. Throughout the story, the directer talks of scenes that they invented to make the movie more interesting. After listening to how much of the film was "poetic licence" my view of this movie has gone right down.