Patch Adams (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Patch Adams |
| Original title | Patch Adams |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tom Shadyac |
| script |
Maureen Mylander , Steve Oedekerk |
| production |
Mike Farrell , Barry Kemp , Marvin Minoff , Charles Newirth |
| music | Marc Shaiman |
| camera | Phedon Papamichael |
| cut | Don Zimmerman |
| occupation | |
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Patch Adams is an American tragic comedy directed by Tom Shadyac from 1998 . Robin Williams plays the leading role .
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The film shows the life of the doctor Patch Adams and is based on his book Good Health Is a Laughing Matter .
After attempting suicide, Hunter “Patch” Adams volunteered to be admitted to a psychiatric clinic. There he learns that helping other people can distract him from his own problems. The highly intelligent Adams thus wins his attitude of a good quality of life as the best remedy and gets the desire to become a doctor.
After leaving the clinic prematurely at his own request, he begins studying medicine. The study requirements forbid him to contact patients before his third year, but he doesn't care and keeps going to the hospital, where he manages to bring back a good mood even to death patients. He is repeatedly admonished by the head of the hospital and threatened with expulsion from his studies several times.
After an experience with a woman who cannot see her daughter's last minutes because she first has to take care of her health insurance, Adams decides to build a clinic where you don't have to pay and where everyone is patient and Doctor is. Together with his college friends Carin Fisher and Truman Schiff, he builds this up in a hut in nature. He mainly treats patients who are not admitted anywhere else.
A love develops between Adams and Carin Fisher, which comes to an abrupt end when Carin is killed with a shotgun by one of these patients. Adams is so angry and sad about this that he wants to end it all first. Eventually, however, he finds his way back to his old optimism and life, and helps the patient to have joy again. But his nonconformity eventually leads Dean Walcott to ban him from studying. Before his eyes, Adams steals his personal file, which is strictly forbidden, and studies it with Truman. There is a major hearing before the university senate in which Adams explains his motives and pathetically propagates his goals. The exclusion is rejected, in the end Adams can finish his studies and get his doctorate. At the award of the doctorate by Dr. Eaton reveals to Adams that he has preserved some of his nonconformity by modifying his robe so that one can see his bare backside.
Reviews
Patch Adams received mostly bad reviews. American film critic Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on December 25, 1998 that Patch Adams was "shameless" because he was predictable and "extracted tears without anesthesia". He also made fun of Robin Williams' portrayal of the role.
There was also negative criticism from TV Spielfilm (7/1999), in which the film was described as "badly manipulative". The KulturSPIEGEL acknowledged the lack of charm and truthfulness.
"What can be seen as a plea for more humanity and sympathy in everyday medical practice, turns out to be an unimaginatively staged, even quite heartless entertainment film in its calculated predictability, which does not really show any interest in the fate of its characters."
Awards
Marc Shaiman was nominated for an Oscar in 1999 for film music and won the ASCAP Film and Television Music Award in 2000 .
Robin Williams was nominated for the 1999 Golden Globe , American Comedy Award, and Golden Satellite Award .
The film was nominated for Best Comedy for a Golden Globe and a Young Artist Award in 1999.
Web links
- Patch Adams in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Patch Adams at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Patch Adams at Metacritic (English)
- Patch Adams in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ^ Review by Roger Ebert
- ↑ quoted from Dirk Jasper FilmLexikon: Patch Adams ( Memento from June 19, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
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^ KulturSPIEGEL 3/1999
Patch Adams . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1999 ( online ). - ↑ Patch Adams. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 26, 2017 .