On the outside, he determines to become a doctor in order to help people and enrolls in medical school. There he finds that the doctors don't help him, but the patients do.
If all of these things really happened to him, they should have abandoned Robin Williams and brought in Jerry Lewis for the telethon.Īs the movie opens, a suicidal Patch has checked into a mental hospital. It is allegedly based on the life of a real man named Patch Adams, who I have seen on television, where he looks like Salvador Dali's seedy kid brother.
It extracts tears individually by liposuction, without anesthesia. 'Patch Adams' made me want to spray the screen with Lysol.