The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it meant risking his own career.
Casts Robin Williams, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Daniel London, Bob Gunton, Harve Presnell, Peter Coyote, Michael Jeter, Josef Sommer, Irma P. Hall
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
In Country
The Crime of Father Amaro
Pretty Poison
Mother of Mine
The Life and Crimes of William Palmer
Loving Pablo
Little Lady
By Player
Switzerland
Tichý Američan v Praze
Nowhere to Be Found
Torrey Pines
The Little Witch
Alex: The Life of a Child
Suite Française
The End of the Pale Hour
Mixed by Erry
Trainwreck
Hippocrates
A World for You and Me
SIMILAR MOVIES
In Country
IMDB 5.4 | Sep , 1989
Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her uncle Emmett, who also served in Vietnam. Emmett hangs around with Tom, Earl, and Pete, three other Vietnam vets who, like Emmett, all have problems of one kind or another that relate to their war experiences. Samantha becomes obsessed with finding out about her father.The Crime of Father Amaro
IMDB 5.2 | Oct , 2005
O Crime do Padre Amaro ("The Crime of Father Amaro") is a novel by the 19th-century Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de Queiroz. It was first published in 1875 to great controversy.Pretty Poison
IMDB 6.8 | Jul , 1968
Dennis is a delusional arsonist out on parole. Sue Ann is the seemingly guileless girl-next-door drum majorette he draws into his paranoid scheme to destroy a chemical factory.Mother of Mine
IMDB 6.6 | Sep , 2005
1943: Nine-year-old Eero whose father is killed during the war is brought to Sweden to foster parents to his protection like thousands of other Finnish children. Eero feels lost, particularly as his foster mother Signe behaves very unfriendly. She was expecting a little girl and still mourns for her daughter who drowned in the sea.The Life and Crimes of William Palmer
IMDB 9.5 | Mar , 1998
Keith Allen plays William Palmer in this true story of a Victorian-era English surgeon who uses poison to settle scores and ward off debt. William lacks a sense of regret, even after killing his wife, brother and three of his own children.Loving Pablo
IMDB 6.3 | Oct , 2017
The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.Little Lady
IMDB 7.5 | Jan , 1961
Little Lady (1961), adapted from a paperback novel, tells the story of a young woman, "the little lady", surrounded by evil relatives who try forcefully to take control of her inheritance until she is saved by the young son of a fallen aristocratic family.By Player
IMDB 8 | Dec , 2000
The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the camera as if she is addressing Tonoyama himself, recollecting events in his life. The film focuses on Tonoyama's alcohol dependence and his various sexual relationships, as well as his film work with Shindo.Switzerland
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2024
Patricia Highsmith’s late life solitude in the Swiss Alps is interrupted by Edward, a young literary agent sent by the writer’s relentless publishing company to convince her to pen one last novel in her wildly popular Ripley series. Highsmith uses her famously macabre imagination to scare Edward away, but before they know it, a collaboration ensues, leaving the world they’ve constructed indistinguishable from their own.Tichý Američan v Praze
IMDB 6 | Jan , 1978
Nowhere to Be Found
IMDB 7.7 | Sep , 2021
A mother's worst nightmare comes true when her teenage daughter goes missing.Torrey Pines
IMDB 6.3 | Oct , 2016
Torrey Pines is a stop-motion animated feature film by director Clyde Petersen. Based on a true story, the film is a queer punk coming-of-age tale, taking place in Southern California in the early 1990's. Raised by a schizophrenic single mother, Petersen's life story unfolds in a series of baffling and hallucinated events. With a mother fueled by hallucinations of political conspiracy and family dysfunction, twelve-year-old Petersen is taken on a cross-country adventure that will forever alter the family as they know it.The Little Witch
IMDB 7 | Feb , 2018
The little witch is only 127 years old – too young for the annual coven of witches. Although she is not yet old enough to be a real witch she wants to become a really good one. This decision causes trouble inside her magic world.Alex: The Life of a Child
IMDB 6.4 | Apr , 1986
Based on true events, 'Alex: The Life of a Child' follows former 'Sports Illustrated' writer Frank Deford and his wife Carole when their happy, all-American family is rocked to the core when their baby daughter Alex is diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis. While CF sufferers were almost certainly doomed to an early death in the Seventies, Alex grew into a child who showed remarkable courage and strength in face of her illness. Her loving family were quick to rally around her, determined to show the same bravery as the little girl as they supported and cherished her through life and struggled to move on after her death at the tragically young age of eight.Suite Française
IMDB 7.3 | Mar , 2015
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.The End of the Pale Hour
IMDB 5.6 | Dec , 2021
A young man falls in love with a woman he meets at a party, but when she leaves him, he must face some uncomfortable truths.Mixed by Erry
IMDB 7.5 | Mar , 2023
The rise and fall of the pirate mixtape empire of three brothers from Naples, Italy, during the '80s.Trainwreck
IMDB 5.8 | Jul , 2015
Having thought that monogamy was never possible, a commitment-phobic career woman may have to face her fears when she meets a good guy.Hippocrates
IMDB 6.5 | Sep , 2014
Benjamin is meant to be a great doctor, he’s certain of it. But his first experience as a junior doctor in the hospital ward where his father works doesn’t turn out the way he hoped it would. Responsibility is overwhelming, his father is all but present, and his co-junior partner, a foreign doctor, is far more experimented than he is. This internship will force Benjamin to confront his limits… and start his way to adulthood.A World for You and Me
IMDB 0 | Feb , 1962
Turkish adaptation of the novel “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck.