In this true comedy/drama, Robin Williams ("What Dreams May Come," "Good Will Hunting") plays Hunter "Patch" Adams, a manic-depressive who decides it's better to be a doctor than a perennial patient. Problem is: Patch is also a clown, infuriating the medical establishment by doing outrageous things. Based on the 1993 book "Gesundheit: Good Health is a Laughing Matter" by Hunter Doherty Adams, the film's timely theme is the therapeutic value of humor, characterized by a personalized approach to medicine, but writer Steve Oedekerk and director Tom Shadyac cater to Williams' talent for improvisation. The story begins in 1969 in Fairfax Hospital's Psychiatric Ward, where Patch voluntarily commits himself after attempting suicide and acquires hi
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