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DVD Features:
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: June 22, 1999
- Originally Released: 1998
- Label: Universal Studios
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Packaging: Snap Case
- Single Side - Dual Layer
- Collectors Edition
- Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox - 2.35
- Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.0 - English, French
- Subtitles - English (SDH) - Optional
- Additional Release Material:
- Behind the Scenes
- Outtakes
- Trailers
- Documentary: THE MEDICINAL VALUE OF LAUGHTER
- Audio Commentary: Tom Shadyac - Director
- Text/Photo Galleries:
- Production Notes
- Biographies: Cast & Crew
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Robin Williams | |
| Performer: | Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bob Gunton, Peter Coyote, Josef Sommer, Monica Potter, Harve Presnell, Irma P. Hall, Michael Jeter, Frances Lee McCain, Harold Gould, Alan Tudyk, James Greene, Bruce Bohne, Harry Groener, Barry Shabaka Henley, Ellen Albertini Dow, Ryan Hurst & Richard Kiley | |
| Directed by | Tom Shadyac | |
| Edited by | Don Zimmerman | |
| Screenplay by | Steve Oedekerk | |
| Composition by | Marc Shaiman | |
| Produced by | Barry Kemp, Mike Farrell, Marvin Minoff & Charles Newirth | |
| Director of Photography: | Phedon Papamichael |
Entertainment Reviews:
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73%
...[Williams] brings a magic and charm to this character that no one else could....PATCH ADAMS succeeds in putting a twinkle in your eye...
Box Office
Like too many of Mr. Williams's recent movies, Patch Adams wastes the genius of a peerless clown.
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Wall Street Journal
Rating: 3/5 --
The pat manipulation of emotions comes with a dangerously high level of saccharin. But anyone who's ever felt aggrieved by impersonal treatment from the medical establishment will enjoy Williams's system-bucking antics.
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Radio Times
Williams pulls out all the stops in a lead role that gives him carte blanche to careen between extremes of silliness and sentimentality; he tries too hard, too obviously, much like the pic itself.
Variety
Shadyac underscores Williams' comic routines with superfluous and frankly relentless reaction shots of patients and hospital staff alike crumpling with laughter.
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Sight and Sound
Comics who want to do Hamlet often end up, as here, serving big, sticky slices of ham.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 2/5 --
Indulges to the hilt every obnoxious, hyperactive, oh-what-I-wouldn't-give-for-a-tranquilizer-gun aspect of Robin Williams' performing style.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Product Description:
Tom Shadyac's (ACE VENTURA) film tells the true story of Hunter "Patch" Adams (Robin Williams), an aspiring doctor in the 1970's who attempted to treat his patients with a medicine that modern science had totally disregarded: humor. After a stint in a mental hospital where he discovers his need to help others, a young Patch enters medical school. There he develops his own methods of reaching patients as an antidote to the the pomposity he witnesses in his instructors and fellow students. While his patients and fellow staff members appreciate his approach, the powers-that-be frown upon his "unschooled" methods and attempt to prevent him from practicing. Philip Seymour Hoffman (MAGNOLIA) and Monica Potter (ALONG CAME A SPIDER) co-star in this crowd pleaser based on a book by Adams.
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