Patch Adams [videorecording] / Universal Pictures presents a Blue Wolf-Farrell/Minoff-Bungalow 78 production ; screenplay by Steve Odekerk ; produced by Barry Kemp ... [et al.] ; directed by Tom Shadyac.
Robin Williams, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bob Gunton, Daniel London, Peter Coyote. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1998. Includes French dubbed version. Based on the novel Gesundheit! by Hunter Doherty Adams.
Summary:
Meet Patch Adams, a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just about anything to make his patients laugh-- even if it means risking his own career. Based on a true story.
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