The always delightful robin williams once again delivers a heartwarming performance in patch adams, a movie based on the actual real life character named Patch Adams who also wrote a novel about his experience. This is a great movie by good director tom shadyac and includes a great cast including williams and philip seymour hoffman as patch’s friend mitch.
Williams stars as patch adams a guy who comes to work for a hospital with several patients who are either very ill or whose doctors have done little to improve their condition. Adams though, knows that the way to improve their patients is not through medicine but through goodness and happiness. In adams case, he brings laughter and joy using an unusual brand of humor.
In several instances, adams dresses and acts like a clown complete with a red nose. He entertains the dying patients in the hospital with his gentle heart and breathes new life and hope into them.
’’You treat a disease, you win or lose, you treat a patient, I’ll guarantee you’ll win’’ that great lines is Adams philosophy toward treating patients.
He sees that one of the main reasons the doctors have failed in improving their patients conditions is because several of the doctors are cold-blooded and unfeeling. The doctors fail to get know their patients intimately and fail most of all to make their patients happy. Several of william’s colleagues a guy named mitch and a girl name annie are skeptical at first, but after witnessing the improvement in the patients, they see that adams is just what the doctor ordered.
However, not all the people in the hospital is happy with adams. The main boss of the hospital (obviously jealous with adams amazing ability to relate and bring joy the patients) wants adams to quit or be fired from the hospital. I liked this movie very much not only because of williams performance but because of the message. In today’s age with greedy HMO’s, high medical costs and unfeeling customers service, todays patients don’t really get the high quality medical care. Many doctors are rude and impatient with the patients, Nurses fail to get there patients personally and so forth.
Of course not all Doctors and Hospitals are cold-blooded are bad, but it would stupid to say that all of them are good, because they are not. If you turn on the news, there’s always a news segment chronicle the bad service of a hospital or doctor, or a lawsuit against both.
So the movie is very fact based. It’s actually based on the 1970’s real life events of
Hunter ’’Patch’’ Adams (Robin Williams), who founded the Gesundheit Clinic.
Williams does his usual great heartwarming , comedic performance that only he can do. This is a very great film. If you work in the medical profession, you’ll probably learn alot.
If you’re a Williams fan, you’ll love it.