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Summary:
The fact-based story of an unconventional physician who attempted to heal patients with laughter, based on his own book and mixing equal doses of scatological humor and pathos. Robin Williams stars as Hunter Adams, a troubled young man who commits himself to a mental institution in the late 1960s. His experiences there convince Adams to become a doctor, and he enrolls in medical schoo... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Robin Williams - (Patch Adams)
Daniel London - (Trumen)
Monica Potter - (Carin)
Philip Seymour Hoffman - (Mitch)
Bob Gunton - (Dean Walcott)
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Review:
After playing the funny-yet-sympathetic doctor in Awakenings, the funny-yet-sympathetic teacher in Dead Poets Society, and then the funny-yet-sympathetic disc jockey in Good Morning, Vietnam, Robin Williams finally goes back to his roots as the funny-yet-sympathetic doctor in this story of a medical student who reminds us that "laughter... Continue >>

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