Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
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.
- based on novel or book
- nurse
- 1970s
- based on true story
- psychiatric hospital
- hospital
- doctor
- suicidal thoughts
- medical school
- determination
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Robin Williams
Hunter 'Patch' Adams
Monica Potter
Carin Fisher
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Mitch Roman
Daniel London
Truman Schiff
- Bob Gunton — Dean Walcott
- Harve Presnell — Dean Anderson
- Peter Coyote — Bill Davis
- Michael Jeter — Rudy
- Josef Sommer — Dr. Eaton
- Irma P. Hall — Joletta
- Barry Shabaka Henley — Emmet
- Frances Lee McCain — Judy
- Daniella Kuhn — Adelane
- James Greene — Bile
- Harold Gould — Arthur Mendelson
- Directed
- Tom Shadyac
- Written
- Steve Oedekerk
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 3,511 ratings
- Studio
- Universal Pictures, Bungalow 78 Productions, Blue Wolf, Farrell/Minoff
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
