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FilmPG-131998

Patch Adams

ComedyDrama

Directed by Tom Shadyac

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. From TMDB

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Patch Adams is a 1998 comedy drama film, directed by Tom Shadyac, starring Robin Williams, Daniel London and Monica Potter.

  • 136 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon
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  • Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 13, 2025

    It is very important to me that more people know the theme tune to Star Trek: Enterprise was written for Rod Stewart to sing for the 1998 Robin Williams movie, Patch Adams.

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2023

    This is just like 10% different than what happens in that Patch Adams movie

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  • Kenny Lauderdale @kennylauderdale.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 1, 2026

    a lot of comedy, lazy comedy, comes from power dynamics. Me falling down the stairs? That's kinda funny. An old lady falling down the stairs? Not funny, punching down. What next, ripping apart Patch Adams? Like review that third Addams FAMILY movie they can't release or something. Stay in your lane.

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  • おじ /OG @ogforsight.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2025

    The part where 🍎 puts the clown’s red nose on 🌈 reminded me of the movie Patch Adams. Robin Williams, who starred in that movie, also voiced Genie in Aladdin. And 🍎’s Hell’s Greatest Dad seems to take inspiration from Genie’s song “Friend Like Me”, so I can’t help but think Viv might like it too.

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  • Caitie @ghildirthalen.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2025

    Do you all remember that 90s movie 'Patch Adams' with Robin Williams? That's based on a real dude, and he lived in my college town. He was on the same plane as me when I was coming back from Christmas one year 🤷 He looked just like this image plus some wonderful nonmatching clown pants.

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  • 🔺 @cursedsynth.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 31, 2023

    they nerfed Patch Adams in the movie

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  • IMALlama @[email protected]Lemmy · Mar 16, 2025

    [Steve Oedekerk](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Oedekerk), the writer/star of King pow: enter the fist, is amazing in every way - especially if you were consuming media in the 90s. He - wrote and directed when nature calls - cowrote the nutty professor - wrote including Patch Adams - wrote Nutty Professor II: The Klumps - wrote and directed Bruce Almighty - created thumbnation - executive produced Jimmy Neutron and his studio gave us two Jimmy Neutron movies

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  • Flipturns 🏊‍♀️ 📷 🦋 @flipturns.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 16, 2026

    On Robin Williams: While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew. -- Patch Adams

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  • bagele @[email protected]Lemmy · Nov 10, 2023

    Fun fact: The song is a Rod Stewart song written for the movie Patch Adams.

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  • Jules Burne 🔥 @edentiefling.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 11, 2025

    DAY 27 movie with your favorite actor Patch Adams Robin Williams was and always will be my favorite actor. I can't begin to say how much I miss this man 😞 I grew up watching so many of his movies and I truly believe they shaped me as a person. Patch Adams was one of them ❤️

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  • Tampa Bay resister 🇺🇸🇨🇿🇨🇴🏴‍☠️⚡️🐶🎧 @depechemodefan101.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 11, 2026

    #FebruaryMovieChallenge #Filmsky #Movies Day 11. Hospital in a movie. PATCH ADAMS I miss Robin Williams. He was a comic genius!!

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  • stuberk625.bsky.social @stuberk625.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 26, 2025

    Patch Adams was a Splendid movie with Robin Williams as the lead. - Haiku by Stu #haikufeels #patch

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  • Bosht @[email protected]Lemmy · Jun 3, 2025

    Robin Williams. I grew up knowing his more kid-friendly side as the voice of Genie and Batty Koda, his role in Jumanji, etc. Then growing up saw him in films like What Dreams May Come, Patch Adams, Mrs. Doubtfire. When I heard the news he not only died, but by suicide because the man suffered from a severe mental illness it really cut me to the core. It was like losing a favorite silly uncle. I still haven't been able to bring myself to watch any of his movies as I fear it will make me…

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  • 🏳️‍⚧️ Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] @alexandraerin.comBluesky · Aug 29, 2023

    Yeah? If it's such a bad song then why was it literally the theme song from Patch Adams, a movie about what if they gave a medical license to a clown?

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  • Jamie Garwood @nexttotheaisle.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 11, 2026

    #FebruaryMovieChallenge #MovieSky Day 11: Hospital in movie PATCH ADAMS

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  • 𝑺🏀𝑳𝑰𝑺 @solisreport.comBluesky · Jul 27, 2026

    We are at dinner and my dad and my wife are discussing cider house rules, a movie I have never seen And as they discuss and discuss the movie and its merits, it becomes increasingly clear my wife is thinking of Patch Adams

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  • R. Wm. "Ruedii" 🦊🐧 🥖🔞 @rwruedii.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 5, 2025

    Absolutely has to be Patch Adams. The F---ing best biographical film ever made, and the only biographical film I actually 100% enjoyed!

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  • SpaceNoodle @[email protected]Lemmy · Jul 23, 2024

    It was written by Diane Warren and only sung by Rod Stewart for "Patch Adams," the film for which the song was originally written.

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  • Nyx, a backup doll 🔞 @neurolognyx.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 19, 2026

    I felt cheated by the Patch Adams movie after learning that the real guy looks more like an older queer kinkster (complementary)

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  • Varying9125 @[email protected]Lemmy · Sep 22, 2025

    Its like they watched Patch Adams and thought it was a great idea but let's replace him with a soulless avatar to save money

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  • heapinfrimp @bimshwel.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 21, 2025

    i bought a little bag of replacement tablet pen nibs months ago and had need of it last night. I couldn't find it, but I found the bag that bag CAME in and a ticket stib for Patch Adams, a movie I never saw and that debuted two decades before I moved to this house

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  • NathanL75 @nathanl75.bsky.socialBluesky · May 31, 2025

    It’s kind of wild how much Roger Ebert disliked the Patch Adams movie 💝

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  • Petal Lu Ⓥ 💚🌱💙🌎 @petallu.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 27, 2026

    Same for me. I think the first time I saw him was in was Patch Adams and he stood out. I him in Flawless. Such a good movie.

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  • Pages✨hiatus✨ @pagesandowls.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 13, 2025

    Name your fav Robin Williams film. Patch Adams

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  • ♔ 𝖽ⲇⲙⲇⳋⲉ𝖽 𓃠 ⲫⳙⲉⲉⲛ ♔ @damagedqueen.satan.socialBluesky · Oct 4, 2025

    On discord movie night tomorrow 8pm EST Patch Adams (1998)

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  • Kenneth Deuel @kendeuel.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 10, 2024

    In the late 80s, the real Patch Adams lived in Arlington Va and his son was in my boy scout troop. yeah, the movie did not do the man justice at all.

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  • evil baby granny 🎃 😈🏳️‍⚧️ @stveronicaphoto.comBluesky · Jul 17, 2024

    if i had been on that plane 9/11 would have gone down exactly the same as it did. i would have been busy watching Patch Adams (1998) on the in flight movie as the plane slammed into the tower

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  • Jeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 22, 2026

    Sounds like they want a tragedy movie; which is different than a tear-jerker imo. Tell them to watch Patch Adams.

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  • Shaney @shaneysqueeboy.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 20, 2025

    Not to mention that movie very sorely misrepresents the actual, legitimate unconventional medical work of the real-life Hunter Adams, all to exploit it for a shitty feel-good flick. Doug Walker may be a shit critic most of the time, but he's always been right about Patch Adams.

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  • Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 13, 2025

    The theme tune to Star Trek: Enterprise was written for Rod Stewart to sing for the 1998 Robin Williams movie, Patch Adams!

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  • Nelward @nelward.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 26, 2025

    they should remake Patch Adams the movie but have Joe Rogan in it instead of Robbin Williams

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  • chbarts @chbarts.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 13, 2025

    "Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand" Canned creamed corn Patch Adams Song 2 by Blur

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  • ♔ 𝖽ⲇⲙⲇⳋⲉ𝖽 𓃠 ⲫⳙⲉⲉⲛ ♔ @damagedqueen.satan.socialBluesky · Oct 6, 2025

    #nowwatching #filmsky #moviesky discord movie night (another Robin Williams movie) Patch Adams (1998) Dir. Tom Shadyac

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  • The Assembly @theassemblync.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 21, 2025

    While UNC-CH receives dozens of filming requests every year, Neyman said The Summer I Turned Pretty was the biggest production to come to the university since the 1990s, when Patch Adams, a Robin Williams movie, filmed on campus. www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

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  • Shanniac Cop @mistershannonb.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 1, 2025

    Personally, I think the "iceberg" line is a clunker to end on. But at least it's a reference to a movie that stood the test of time and not PATCH ADAMS or something. #FThisMovieFest

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  • emnreviews @emnreviews.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 17, 2025

    I have two tactics for the doctors who ignore me. 1) The penis as a pogostick line from the film Patch Adams, or similar. 2) "Can I record this?" You've never seen a head snap up so fast and them watch you so closely as when you ask that question. Especially when you've got your phone in hand.

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  • Kid Phantasm @kidphantasm.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 22, 2024

    I don't think I have been more angry at a movie than when I saw Patch Adams

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  • Skrrt Russell @cidmcdp.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 19, 2024

    Now, yeah, there are movies that happen in hospitals- John Q, zombie movies, etc. But those don't count- like Patch Adams is the last hospital movie I can even kinda think of.

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  • DokPsy @[email protected]Lemmy · Jul 17, 2024

    Everyone going the biggest and best.... I suggest: Both versions of House on Haunted Hill (evolution of the campy horror genre) Both versions of Black Christmas (see horror tropes become them and the retelling) Jason X (Jason the undying killer but in space!) Teeth (if you needed a movie to really drive home that SA is bad) Trainspotting (if you needed a movie to really drive home that drug addiction is bad) The Room (a detailed instructional of how not to write a movie) Super…

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  • Call Me The Brie-ze @briesmith.xyzBluesky · Jul 1, 2024

    Not searching for posters for this but: * Scary Movie 2, which I returned to Blockbuster the same day I rented it * The Notebook * Patch Adams * Episode IX

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  • thiiird person @thiiirdperson.comBluesky · Jun 13, 2024

    one of the least holy, coolest things you could do with CGI and movie editing is: shuffle Robin Williamses so any movie you watch with a Robin you are getting a random Robin. Centennial Man in Final Cut. Smoochy in Aladdin. Patch Adams in One Hour Photo. The killer from Insomnia in Mrs. Doubtfire.

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  • Steve (low effort Halloween name edition) 👻 @chompmancobra.bsky.socialBluesky · May 7, 2024

    I don't know, I think we should avoid any danger of Patch Adams, to the point doctors have to take those equilibrium pills from the film 'Equilibrium'

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  • Kiss me like a cannibal @axleblaze.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 31, 2023

    The last movie Gene Siskel gave "worst of the year" to was Patch Adams which makes an insane amount of sense because while it and it's "laughter is literally the best medicine" message are shit on their own, imagine sitting through that with brain cancer. You'd want to stab that movie in the face

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  • Zach the Soulstealer @zachthenarratorguy.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 12, 2026

    Patch Adams was far (VERY far) from my favorite #RobinWilliams #movie and yet this scene where Patch cheers up some Make A Wish kids just for me sums up what Robin was all about: making the world a lighter place for those who truly need it. #RIP you beautiful soul.

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  • Trauma Whisper @firewoman79.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 26, 2026

    I have to couch surf while my family believes that Douglas County, Co was correct in finding me "ITP" while studying to become Dr Patch Adams. We watched that movie together when it came out. Dad has been trolling me coloradosun.com/2025/10/16/u... But I was suppose to be in the CIA, got a lot of Ds

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  • Petal Lu Ⓥ 💚🌱💙🌎 @petallu.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 23, 2026

    I remember this first time I saw him in a film, which I think was Patch Adams, and I thought he really stood out. Such a fine actor.

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  • 🎃 Ryan S. Pumpkins 🎃 (Any Questions?) @ryanwritesgood.bsky.socialBluesky · May 28, 2026

    Happy May 28! Here's some #ReasonsToCelebrate today... Hope you're a carnivore... today is both National Hamburger Day AND National Brisket Day! Happy birthday to Gladys Knight (1944 - "Midnight Train to Georgia") and Patch Adams (1945 - the doctor that inspired the movie of the same name)!

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  • ReadJack🇺🇸 @readjack.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 16, 2026

    Philip Seymour Hoffman vs... The movie: Patch Adams The opponent: Robin Williams The scene: "If you don't like me, just say it." "I DON'T LIKE YOU." www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNN6...

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  • harrisonbooks.bsky.social @harrisonbooks.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 22, 2026

    It’s a true statement. This movie and Patch Adams were so unutterably horrible.

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  • Ryan @rschem1.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 23, 2025

    I always assumed “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey” were considered mythology as opposed to history. As a History major I feel that unless a film is being incredibly irresponsible like “Pocahontas” or “Patch Adams,” and they are viewed as entertainment first I‘m not going to be too nitpicky about it.

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  • ken-shabby @ken-shabby.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 15, 2025

    Do I have to? Fischer King because 'acting' That movie in Alaska with Hooah because 'chilling' Mrs. Doubtfire because 'drive-by fruiting' Patch Adams because 'OB-GYN convention' What Dreams May Come because 'amaze-balls' Garp because 'are you fucking kidding me' I'm old. I can't recall -

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  • IBS Vortex @stevemyrkul.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 31, 2025

    The movie Patch Adams was based on a real guy named Pat Chadams

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  • Spike Prime [Art Comms Open] @spikeprime.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 26, 2025

    That's okay, the entire ending of Enterprise was canonically fanfiction anyway. Personally, I like to think that hologram program was the in-universe Trek equivalent of those really bad bio pics which get every wrong, like that awful Patch Adams movie.

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  • The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 1, 2025

    I wish Robin had done better by Patch Adams. As impressive as the movie character was, the real character is much more so. And that movie was supposed to fund the construction of Gesundheit Hospital - Patch only agreed to become famous in order to make that happen. Look him up on YouTube.

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  • THE MONSTER @widdlebrudder.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 12, 2025

    Choosing a non horror film rn. Patch Adams is one of my two absolute favorite Robin Williams movies! 🩺🤡🫶😭 Now Watching

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  • briellastella @briellastella.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 10, 2025

    I remember my parents reverently explaining what an Important Movie it was and then never hearing about it again. A lot of the other movies here did leave some trails in popular culture, there's plenty of references to Patch Adams and I've seen some for Dead Poets Society, etc. Zero for Mr. Holland.

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  • Ernest:2026 @ernestsewell.bsky.socialBluesky · May 3, 2025

    Without saying Mrs. Doubtfire, favorite Robin Williams film? Mrs. Doubtfire Good Morning, Vietnam Dead Poets Society The Birdcage Patch Adams One Hour Adams Aladdin

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  • Dave Greenfield @milkyrules.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 4, 2025

    I’m currently trying to watch every Robin Williams film. Saw Patch Adams for the first time last week and it’s not great. Veeerry mawkish. Nice to see Philip Seymour Hoffman though

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  • Lady Charlie @theladycharlie.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 9, 2024

    What's your favorite movie to cry to? This afternoon I'm going with Patch Adams #sky #blacksky #moviesky #crysky

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  • Andrea Z @azagata.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 9, 2024

    Pick a movie, keep one actor - the rest are muppets: Patch Adams, keep Robin Williams (always keep Robin Williams)

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