| Title: Patch Adams Starring: Robin Williams, for the most part Genre: Romantic and dramatic comedy Rated: PG-13 Rating: ***1/2 (out of ****) Patch Adams was based on the true story of a man searching for the need to help other people. Hunter Adams was instituted in a mental hospital very early into his life. He suffered minor fits of depression. He wanted help from the doctors, but found that the best medicine was within the patients. From battling squirrels with Rudy (Michael Jeter) to pondering life with Arthur Mendelson (Harold Gould), Hunter gained two things. The knowledge that helping people made all his problems go away and a new nickname. Patch. Patch's new obsession was to become a doctor and help the sick in need. To do this, however, he needed to enroll in medical school. When he got there he met several very interesting friends. The first was his prude roommate, Mitch Roman (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a prude student who never understands how Patch is as smart as he is acting so childish. The next is Truman Schiff (Daniel London), a curios boy, like Patch, looking for something more from life. Then there's Carin Fisher (Monica Potter), a girl he instantly falls in love with but wants nothing to do with him. Finally there's Deal Walcott (Bob Gunton) and Dr. Eaton (Joseph Summer), the two men that decide wether Patch stays in school with his antics or is booted out and never becomes a doctor. Patch Adams is a very dramatic movie with beautiful acting from Robin Williams, as expected. The other members of the cast were fine, nothing special, but became specks next to Robin. It was a very dramatic movie, though funny as it is, and also very touching. The plot, more indepth then I showed, gives the story a sort of life only Robin Williams can orchestrate. I gave Patch Adams three and a half stars out of four for basically a brilliant one-man show by Mr. Robins and a touching story for him to display perfectly. -Alaay- |