Robin Williams As Patch Adams
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The film was shot in three locations: Treasure Island, California near San Francisco , Asheville North Carolina , and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A diner in Point Richmond a district in Richmond, California served as the University Diner. Several interior classroom scenes were filmed on the campus of UC Berkeley.
The producers worked very closely with the Make-A-Wish Foundation. For this reason, all but two of the ill children acting in this film actually have cancer. 2
The film has several major departures from Adams real history. One is that the character of Carin is fictional, but is analogous to a real life friend of Adams a man who was murdered under similar circumstances. Another difference is the then 47-year-old Robin Williams portrays Adams as enrolling in medical school very late in his life, his older age even being brought up in dialogue. In reality, Adams started medical school immediately and his educational progress was quite normal for a physician: He graduated high school at 18, college at 22, and medical school at 26.
Reception edit
Box office performance edit
The film was released on December 25, 1998 in the United States and Canada and grossed 25.2 million in 2,712 theaters its opening weekend, ranking 1 at the box office. After its first weekend, it was the 2 film for four weeks. 3 The film grossed US 202,292,902 worldwide 135,026,902 in the United States and Canada and 67,266,000 in other territories. 4
Critical reception edit
The review aggregator Metacritic reported that the film averaged a rating of 25, 5 and currently has a score of 23 on Rotten Tomatoes based on 56 reviews with the consensus reading, Syrupy performances and directing make this dramedy all too obvious. 6 Noted Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert gave the film one and a half stars out of four and wrote, Patch Adams 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. 7 Robert K. Elder of the Chicago Tribune called Monica Potter the best thing about the otherwise dopey Patch Adams. 8
It received Two Thumbs Down on the television series Siskel Ebert, with particular criticism towards the character of Patch, whom they viewed as overbearing, obnoxious and sanctimonious as well as noting that they would never trust a doctor who acted like Adams does. Gene Siskel said I would rather turn my head and cough than see another moment of Patch Adams again. 9 He later singled it out as the worst film of 1998; it was the last film he gave a Worst of to before his death in 1999.
Marc Shaiman s score was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score. The film was also nominated two Golden Globe Awards, for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Robin Williams.
Reaction of the real Patch Adams edit
The real Patch Adams has been openly critical of the film, saying that it sacrificed much of his message in order to make a selling film. He also said that out of all aspects of his life and activism, the film portrayed him merely as a funny doctor. 10 At a Conference of World Affairs, he told film critic Roger Ebert, I hate that movie. 11
During a speech in 2010 at the Mayo Clinic, Patch Adams said, The film promised to build our hospital. None of the profits from the film ever came to us, and so, basically 40 years into this work, we are still trying to build our hospital. 12
Adams thoughts on Williams edit
Furthermore, Adams stated,
Robin Williams made 21 million for four months of pretending to be me, in a very simplistic version, and did not give 10 to my free hospital. Patch Adams, the person, would have, if I had Robin s money, given all 21 million to a free hospital in a country where 80 million cannot get care. 13
However, in another interview, Adams did clarify that he did not hate Williams, 10 and Williams actively supported St. Jude Children s Research Hospital for several years. 14
After Williams s death in 2014, Adams said,
The terrible news of the passing of Robin Williams reached me here in the Peruvian Amazon late Monday night with tremendous sadness. Surrounded by over 100 friends and clowns on our annual clown trip, we mourn this tragic loss and continue to treasure his comic genius. Robin Williams was a wonderful, kind and generous man. One important thing I remember about his personality is that he was unassuming he never acted as if he was powerful or famous. Instead, he was always tender and welcoming, willing to help others with a smile or a joke. Robin was a brilliant comedian there is no doubt. He was a compassionate, caring human being. While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life Patch Adams–I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew. Also, I would like to point out, Robin would be especially kind toward my children when they would visit the set. Contrary to how many people may view him, he actually seemed to me to be an introvert. When he invited me and my family into his home, he valued peace and quiet, a chance to breathe a chance to get away from the fame that his talent has brought him. While early in life, he turned to drug use and alcohol to escape, he replaced the addiction with moments of solitude to help cope with the stress that fame brought. This world is not kind to people who become famous, and the fame he had garnered was a nightmare. While saddened, we are left with the consequences of his death. I m enormously grateful for his wonderful performance of my early life, which has allowed the Gesundheit Institute to continue and expand our work. We extend our blessings to his family and friends in this moment of sadness. Thank you for all you ve given this world Robin, thank you my friend. 15.
In the quiet, sterile, somber confines of a hospital, a clown with giant shoes and an enormous red nose suddenly bursts through a door and strides down the hall.
Jan 09, 2012 Patch Adams Official Trailer 1 - Robin Williams Movie 1998 HD Patch Adams Trailer - Directed by Tom Shadyac and starring Robin Williams, Daniel London.
In the quiet, sterile, somber confines of a hospital, a clown with giant shoes and an enormous red nose suddenly bursts through a door and strides down the hall.
Patients bewarelaughter is contagious.
Academy Award -winner 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. Based on a true story, Patch Adams combines sidesplitting humor with an inspiring story that transcends the traditional comedy. After such career highlights as Good Morning Vietnam, Dead Poets Society, Awakenings, The Fisher King, Mrs. Doubtfire and his Oscar -winning supporting turn in last year s Good Will Hunting, the highly versatile star racks up another milestone as he takes on an inspiring and colorful real-life character whose reputation for zany, humorous antics rivals his own.
The director of Patch Adams is Tom Shadyac, whose first three films were the smash hit comedies Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Liar Liar starring Jim Carrey, and The Nutty Professor starring Eddie Murphy. Once again Shadyac has collaborated with screenwriter/co-producer Steve Oedekerk. With Patch Adams, the pair has graduated from the lighthearted merriment of these earlier efforts to tackle a superstar vehicle with a more realistic, more dramatic but still comically-fertile story, based on a real-life character s struggle to help others.
To support his star, Shadyac has enlisted such talented young actors as Monica Potter Without Limits, Con Air, newcomer Daniel London and Philip Seymour Hoffman Boogie Nights, Happiness along with such well-known character actors as Michael Jeter, Bob Gunton, Harold Gould, Irma P. Hall, Harve Presnell and Richard Kiley.
A Blue Wolf, Farrell/Minoff, Bungalow 78 Production, Patch Adams was produced by Barry Kemp Romy and Michele s High School Reunion, Mike Farrell, Marvin Minoff Dominick and Eugene and Charles Newirth Forest Gump. The executive producers are Marsha Garces Williams Mrs. Doubtfire and Tom Shadyac.
1999 Universal Studios.
The terrible news of the passing of Robin Williams reached me here in the Peruvian Amazon late Monday night with tremendous sadness. Surrounded by over 100 friends.
Actor: Good Will Hunting 1997 Dead Poets Society 1989 Jumanji 1995 Aladdin 1992. Born: Robin McLaurin Williams July 21, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Directed by Tom Shadyac. With Robin Williams, Daniel London, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman. The true story of a heroic man, Hunter Patch Adams, determined.
