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Summary: Don't Put Down this Movie!!!!
Review: How can any of you say that this movie was bad? It was heartfelt, loving... maybe not "real", but are any of Robin Williams's movies "real"? Take Dead Poets Society, for instance. What teacher would ever do the things that RW's Mr. Keating did, all to teach his students poetry? Or in Mrs. Doubtfire. Who on earth would dress up as a female nanny to see his kids when he could always apply for custody (I can't remember if he tried that or not in the movie)? The point is that Robin likes to play characters who are unconventional, who defy all rule and logic just to express themselves and to live their lives the way they want it to be lived. And for that, Robin Williams is one of my favorite actors. He gives Hollywood a touch of humorous life, creating almost a picture with his actions. He challenges us to be who we are, no matter what the common person may say. I am sick and tired of hearing people say that Robin's career is on a downslide and will defend him anytime someone has a doubt. OK, now that I'm done venting my anger... Patch Adams is a fantastic movie. See it if you want to laugh, cry, and just enjoy yourself and be inspired. (See Dead Poets Society if you REALLY want to be inspired). Enjoy. Jaclyn :)
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Summary: Made me feel sicker than the patients on screen
Review: I am not sure what is the bigger crime: -The acting in this movie -The fact that this is based on a true story -The fact that I paid money to see this. I have never been a Williams fan. Nevertheless, his role as "Popeye" was more believable than this. This movie puts a pox on the medical profession, suggesting that all one really needs for the practice of medicine is a good heart and a decent bedside manner. Let us completely dismiss the fact that this man was practicing medicine without licensure. Show of hands from anyone who would accept the care of an unlicensed person because...he's nice. Indeed, Joe Public may see this neat guy wearing a clown nose, making kids happy, and practicing at reduced or free costs. The truth? You have an unlicensed man practicing medicine. The reviews are right on, this movie is entirely too predictible. Leaving the film with a warm fuzzy feeling does not make it a solid showing. With all due respect to those who really embrace this perspective, this movie makes it on my list of worst movies of all time. Sorry!
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Summary: THER COULD BE A PATH IN YOU
Review: To start you will feel an expiriance of happiness and sadness but you will know that everybody need to be more sensible to life and to death.More something like MEET JOE BLACK.
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Summary: typical Robin Williams movie
Review: I'm sure you know the plot by now, so i'll only mention other aspects of the movie. This is a very Robin Williams-ish affair, in a sense, that whatever you expect him to do in this movie, chances are he'll do it. Often predictable, though quite entertaining, this is feel good movie. My advice to Robin Williams is to stick to the script of a movie (ie. Mrs Doubtfire) instead of adding in his own jokes (TOYS). This movie seems to be a combination of those two. The songs in this movie are all very manipulative. Forget the fact that williams character is basically a complete nutcase (literally) happy/feel good music is playing so that means he's the good guy. Good guy/bad guys are very clearly cut out. I guess this is a family movie, but i'm not sure. Anyways, I saw the thing and enjoyed it. I hope you do too.
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Summary: Robin Williams clowns around in Patch Adams
Review: Patch Adams made me want to spray the screen with Lysol. Those are the word's from Chicago Suntimes critic Roger Ebert. When the movie opens Hunter Adams (Robin Williams) checks into a hospital. Where he finds the doctors don't help him, but the patients do.He is assigned to a man named Dr. Prack. And his roomate is Rudy (Michael Jeter). Hunter mets a man named Arthur Mendelson (Harold Gold) who is staying there too. So on day Hunter tells Dr. Prack that he is leaving. Two years later he goes to a medical school which there is a hospital in it too. The patient is referred by bed number or disease, Patch asks "What's her name?" His roomate at the college name is Mitch (Philip Seymour Hoffman). He aslo mets another male student named Truman (Daniel London). There is also a felmale student named Carin (Monica Potter). But instead of being serious about the whole thing, Patch clowns his way through med school. There is one scene, that his roomate accuses him of not studying. In fact, we never see him study. Not once. How does Patch get these top grades? One of the school's dean named Walcott (Bob Gunton) doesn't like him and tires to get rid of Patch Adams. But soon Carin Fisher is killed by a man named Larry (Douglas Roberts). Patch Adams reads a poem to her casket. Mitch starts acting nice around Patch. Is he doing that because the death of Carin?
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Summary: Sometimes shameless schmaltz
Review: With a natural aptitude for medicine, "Patch" Adams need not struggle through medical school as his classmates do, and the aloof doctor-to-be is free to devote much of his time to making terminal patients feel better, much to the dismay of the teachers and administrators of his otherwise idyllic medical school. In other words, it's Robin Williams doing "Good Morning Vietnam", "Dead Poets Society" and "Toys" in med school, with stuffy and stolid doctors standing in for the stuffy latin teachers of "Poets" and the stiff military types in "Toys" and "Good Morning". Bob Cousins, who must be a pretty good humored guy to have spent the 90's playing the unsympathetic authority figure, plays Adams' nemesis, the mean Medical School teacher who is determined to either oust Adams or turn him into a carbon copy of himself. Adams' classmates verge towards the craven, with most openly envious of higher grades. Somehow getting support from some students, Patch opens up a clinic and manages to fall in love with an otherwise frigid classmate who first rebuffs him. But tragedy strikes and (ala' "Poets" and "Vietnam") it takes the combined strength of all of his colleagues to convince him not to give up. The movie climaxes with a medical review board in which Adams must defend his unorthodox ways, but somehow comes out on top, complete with a rousing applause, and a message about how doctors must be more human. It's pretty stiff hollywood morality instead, considering how the film seems more packaged than created. If you're in the mood for Robin Williams, and you haven't seen any in a while, rent this.
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Summary: Butterfly
Review: Some people had a problem with the flesh of the film. Dont pick it apart ...that is not how movies work. If I, for instance, had this on dvd and it skipped back and forth from one scene in the beginning, then to the Donner scene, to the end, then yes, we could listen to the critics. BUT THAT AIN'T HOW IT WORKS- as we say in Alabama. Frankly from front to finish you will enjoy this movie, if you will just believe it. It happened. You will laugh if your human, you will cry if your the crying type, and may even be inspired. Downside:
BUT, I must say that it was even more heartbreaking that they fell back on the old "courtroom decides the ending" overused material. And yes a clown in the Chemo childrens ward is a little scary. What happened before the court room would have been powerful enough for Patch Adams to be resolved.
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Summary: Tolerable
Review: Robin Williams looks absolutely nothing like Patch Adams. That's one downside. However, I question that every bit of this movie is true. Most of it is probably over-dramatized. In other words, it probably stretches the truth a little. It wasn't a bad movie, altogether. It was somewhat inspiring...except for one thing. Where does this guy come off blaming God for all of his problems? I was sickened to see him stand on the edge of a cliff and shake his fist towards heaven, a look of hatred on his face, defiantly growling to God, "Why didn't you create compassion on the seventh day?" This is pure blasphemy. It would have been more entertaining if, having completed this statement, he was struck by a lightening bolt.
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Summary: From New York
Review: I thougt it was a wonderful movie.It was funny.It is about a docter.He makes the paitents laugh though other people do not think it is funny.
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Summary: "You treat a 'person' and you win everytime"
Review: PATCH ADAMS
Robin Williams, Monica Potter, 1997 Synopsis
True story of a psychiatric patient who recovers and later goes to medical school, only to find that his unorthodox ways are not appreciated by the Dean and fellow students. My Review
Gene Siskel called this the worst movie of the year. being a medical student, I did not think it was that bad. The speech he gives at the end makes the film.
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