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Patch Adams (1998)
Directed by Tom Shadyac
“Laughter is contagious.”
Comedy, Drama · 1h 55m
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.
Cast
Robin Williams
Daniel London
Monica Potter
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Bob Gunton
Josef Sommer
Irma P. Hall
Frances Lee McCain
Harve Presnell
Daniella Kuhn
Peter Coyote
James Greene
Crew
- Director
- Tom Shadyac
- Screenplay
- Steve Oedekerk
- Novel
- Patch Adams
- Director of Photography
- Phedon Papamichael
- Original Music Composer
- Marc Shaiman
- Editor
- Don Zimmerman
- Producer
- Marvin Minoff, Mike Farrell, Barry Kemp, Charles Newirth
Details
- Release date
- 1998-12-25
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Universal Pictures, Bungalow 78 Productions, Blue Wolf, Farrell/Minoff
- Budget
- $50,000,000
- Box office
- $202,292,902