Patch adams made me want to spray the screen with lysol. Patch adams is a mustsee and i give the movie a 1010. Released 1998, patch adams stars robin williams, daniel london, monica potter, philip seymour hoffman the pg movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 55 min, and received a score of 25 out of 100. Good health is a laughing matter by adams and maureen mylander. Adams perseveres, however, even starting his own lowcost rural clinic called the gesundheit institute, and wooing a pretty fellow student, carin monica potter. Monica potter doesnt have any movies playing in theaters. Did the character played by monica potter in the movie patch.
Cynics scoffed at robin williams previous film, what dreams may. For patch, humor is the best medicine, and hes willing to do just about anything to make his patients laugh even if it means risking his own career. Patch adams tells the inspirational true story of this once clinically depressed, newly invigorated caregiver on his journey through medical school and beyond. Patch adams movie trailer for the film starring robin williams and monica potter. Monica potter celebrity profile check out the latest monica potter photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at rotten tomatoes. Daniel london is the first of his student converts. Meet patch adams academy award winner robin williams, a doctor who doesnt look, act or think like any doctor youve met before. Robin williams, daniel london, monica potter, philip seymour hoffman the true story of a heroic man, hunter patch adams, determined to become a medical doctor because he enjoys helping people. Did the character played by monica potter in the movie. Real patch adams movie true story chasing the frog.
As the film progresses, patch must decide if he wants to continue his efforts and. Patch adams 1998 tom shadyac synopsis, characteristics. Robin williams stars as patch hunter adams and he does a brilliant job as always. See more ideas about celebrities, blonde actresses and patch adams. For patch, humor is the best medicine, and hes willing to do just about anything to make his patients laugheven if it means risking his own career. Good health is a laughing matter by hunter patch adams.
Patch adams movie trailer patch adams movie trailer for the film starring robin williams and monica potter. Monica potter is a movie actress from cleveland, ohio, usa. If all of these things really happened to him, they should. When i was a girl i would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars. Patch adams monica potter pays tribute to robin williams e. Patch adams 1998 stream and watch online moviefone. Monica potter biography affair, married, husband, ethnicity. Monica potter, who is bright enough to be one of only 6 female med students at the time, goes to a creepy house alone where a known psychotic lives. Consider, for example, the character named carin monica potter, who is. Her highest rated performance has been in the movie without limits 1998. Meanwhile, patch convinces carin monica potter and truman daniel london to join him in the establishment of a free clinic where they can practice the powerful medicine of alternative healing based on love. We can see at the beginning where the movie is headed, but we think maybe can jump free before the crash. One of those treasured films was the 1998 classic patch adams. Patch adams is one of those films that deserved to be a very entertaining film, but unfortunately failed to in every respect to deliver something satisfying for the viewer.
Its very good will hunting to have my love interest dead. In school, as patch wants to help the patients via humor, dean walcott bob gunton wants to force patch to follow the rules, even if it means kicking him out of school. He ventured where no doctor had ventured before, using humour and pathos. With robin williams, daniel london, monica potter, philip seymour hoffman. Consider, for example, the character named carin monica potter, who is one of patchs fellow students. The character corinne fisher played by monica potter is. Monica potter, most recently seen in the prefontaine biography, without limits, is patch s much younger girlfriend. Patch adams 1998 starring robin williams and monica potter based on the book gesundheit. Tragedy strikes, and adams career is put in jeopardy, forcing him to defend his style and philosophy before a board of jurists determined to bar him from practicing medicine.
Patch adams dvd, 1999, full frame for sale online ebay. Actress best known for her supporting roles in feature films con air and patch adams. The compassionate, goodnatured patch dares to look beyond the shackles of psychosis and finds people hurting, dying people in need of honesty, understanding and joy. The image measures 4762 3083 pixels and was added on 3 may 16. I know that he is just playing the role, but he wraps you entirely into a movie and. After struggling with depression in a mental hospital, hunter patch adams robin williams decides he wants to become a doctor. She is known for her starring roles in the films con air 1997, patch adams 1998, and along came a spider 2001. Lovely to see in the extras that mike farrell bj hunnicutt from mash is a friend of the real patch adams and was a producer of the movie. Patch adams is a 1998 semibiographical comedydrama film starring robin williams, monica potter, philip seymour hoffman and bob gunton. I ve seen this movie maybe three times, and i love it more and more each time i. American actress monica potter is best known for her lead roles as tricia poe in the action thriller movie con air 1997 and jezzie flannigan in along came a spider 2001. The supporting cast is peppered with familiar faces. Patch adams is a 1998 american semibiographical comedydrama movie directed by tom shadyac. In the movie, patchs girlfriend is a fellow med student by the name of corinne fisher monica potter.
She appears too late in the movie to be a major love interest. This movie emphasizes the value of people and of life, even at the very end of life. Laughter releases endorphins and other natural mood elevating and pain. Patch adams seems to have lost his head as he changes. The movie lets patch skate on the one tough issue it dares raise against him, when a colleague julia roberts clone monica potter, ensnared in his fantasy of medicine as standup comedy, rushes. He enrolls at virginia medical university but is disillusioned by. Patch adams by tom shadyac robin williams, daniel london.
Actress monica potter tells wkyc she lost role in the cider house rules after refusing sexual adva duration. She also appeared in the horror films saw 2004 and the last house on the left, a 2009 remake film. Is patchs girlfriend in the movie based on a real person. Williamss recent movies, patch adams wastes the genius of a peerless clown. It is allegedly based on the life of a real man named patch adams, who i have seen on television, where he looks like salvador dalis seedy kid brother. So when patch finds himself in a ditch, with the tragic death of his love interest carin monica potter at the hands of a deranged patient and the trial that attempts to revoke his license to. Stay in the know with the latest movie news and cast interviews at. It extracts tears individually by liposuction, without anesthesia. From cleveland to hollywood, actress, producer, entrepreneur, funny woman, tearjerker, designer, decorator, builder, creator, fixer, cook, cleaner, host, wife, browns fan, homemaker, very amateur bowler and her favorite title mom, monica potter has achieved success in several different wayssave having a concise bio intro. Monica potter is finally speaking out about her costars tragic death that left her nothing short of devastated. I believe it fits this movie better than star trek. May 10, 2019 monica potter biography affair, married, husband, ethnicity, nationality, net worth, height married biography who is monica potter.
Directed by tom shadyac and set in the late 1960searly 1970s, it is based on the life story of dr. Philip seymour hoffman the prank phone caller in happiness is patch s straitlaced roommate. Aug, 2014 monica potter remembers patch adams costar robin williams as a. Other good performances, come from philip seymour hoffman and monica potter. Even in the face of tragedy, adams proves to be a resilient idealist. There are those who are inspired by the true story of a troubled man who finds happiness in helping othersa man set on changing the world and who may well accomplish the task. For patch, humor is the best medicine, and hes willing to do. Robin williams robin williams death robin williams tribute monica potter patch adams 1998 hesitant alien gerard way my chemical. Meet patch adams academy award winner, robin williams, a doctor who doesnt look, act or think like any doctor youve met before. Patch adams movie simple english wikipedia, the free. Interestingly, ebert, with siskel and ebert, gave patch adams one of his 10 worst picks of the year.
Patch soon recruits the stiff, serious carin monica potter, whom he falls in love with. Patch adams monica potter pays tribute to robin williams. The true story of a heroic man, hunter patch adams, determined to become a medical doctor because he enjoys helping people. As a christian, i found patch adams sincere care for people in the face of obstinate and prideful professionalism to be inspirational. One of those treasured films was the 1998 classic patch adams, featuring williams as a medical student who always treated patients with a healthy dose of humor. The best movie quotes, movie lines and film phrases by movie quotes. Monica potter is an american actress and she is best known for her performances in the films con air in 1997, patch adams in 1998, and along came a spider in 2001. Pictured at left is robin williams laughing with the reallife hunter patch adams. It is a movie i was interested in it is a real good. The true story of a heroic man, hunter patch adams, determined to become a. Patch adams drugstore perfume tribute to robin williams. In 2010, she began her awardnominated role as kristina braverman in parenthood. Their relationship in the film was so well developed.