This shows how the world could be a better place if everyone cared about customers or patients as individuals and tried to make their lives better. It was a bit violent and there was a lot of language. There is a naked male rear shown at the end. Teen, 16 years old Written by Mr August 2, Teen, 13 years old Written by xffanatic April 9, Teen, 13 years old Written by jmitch April 9, April 9, Don't go by the site reviews Seriously, there is no way that the person who reviewed this ever actually saw the movie.
The acting is absolutely wonderful, the story is great, and, like most Robin Williams movies, it's funny with a serious message. Probably not great for kids under 11 or so, because the story can be a little deep, and the murder of a character is very sad. It's a great one to watch, you won't regret it.
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Certainly it shows the importance of warm bedside manners and learning not to let stress get the best of us. But unfortunately this particular remedy contains high doses of profanity and sexual innuendo—like when Patch creates two giant female legs that lead to the doors where a group of visiting gynecologists will enter. How much of an impact can attitude have on the body?
Do we heal faster when we are happy and comfortable? Patch Adams Parent Guide. Violence A-. Aside from this, the film does have some profanity, and Robin Williams' free-associative humor veers into the occasional off-color sexual reference and innuendo, plus one scene where his naked bottom is exposed.
Add your rating See all 6 parent reviews. Add your rating See all 12 kid reviews. As a patient in a mental hospital, Patch Adams Robin Williams learns that his mental health is improved more by helping other patients than by treatment from the doctors.
From there, it is off to medical school, where he manages to be at the top of his classes while spending most of his time at the hospital making the patients laugh. How could the faculty object to this?
Could it be because a first-year medical student might interfere with a patient's treatment and cause serious harm? No, it can only be because they are fuddy-duddies who just can't remember how to have fun! And while we're on the subject of fun, how about stealing supplies from the hospital for a little clinic that Patch and his friends set up in their spare time?
And what goes on at that clinic? Medical students who have no idea how serious the problems are "treat" patients with bandages and kindness. When the inability to diagnose the severity of illness has the most profoundly tragic results, Patch only has a brief crisis before putting that darn clown-nose back on and getting back to the serious business of making patients laugh.
There are a lot of important points to be made in this nonetheless shallow movie. It's about the dignity that all of us deserve when we are scared and vulnerable, and about the importance of humor in the direst of circumstances.
But Patch Adams undercuts its own arguments by presenting us with a hero who is more narcissistic than humanitarian. If the real-life Robin Williams were a doctor, he would be the real-life Patch Adams, who believes that doctors should treat the patient, not the disease, and that sick, frightened people need to feel that those who take care of them are paying attention. Unfortunately, PATCH ADAMS is so unforgivably manipulative that in the concluding climactic scene, set in a courtroom just in case you weren't sure who the good guys and the bad guys were, you may find yourself rooting for the uptight by-the-rulebook dean of the medical school.
Families can talk about the dignity that all of us deserve when we are scared and vulnerable and about the importance of humor in the direst of circumstances. Do you think the movie undercuts its message?
Who would play you in the movie about your life? What story would it tell? Write a scene that would appear in your life story. Common Sense Media's unbiased ratings are created by expert reviewers and aren't influenced by the product's creators or by any of our funders, affiliates, or partners.
See how we rate. Streaming options powered by JustWatch. Common Sense Media, a nonprofit organization, earns a small affiliate fee from Amazon or iTunes when you use our links to make a purchase. Thank you for your support. Our ratings are based on child development best practices. Indeed, the red tape of HMOs and modern medicine makes the medical field more and more unfriendly. Thus, the movie argues that medical professionals should establish personal relationships with patients, without compromising their medical diagnoses, of course.
It is far more important, the movie says, to actually care for people, get to know them, find out their dreams, and give them humor, than to see them merely as case studies for illnesses.
Patch elicits giggles out of cancer-stricken children and a merry heart out of a dying man. He tells the Dean that patients need compassion, no matter their personality or differences. Throughout it all, he also shows love to a man-hating implied lesbian, a fellow student who decides that she can change to heterosexuality because she trusts in his love.
Finally, he makes several biblical references, joins in on a Christian funeral and wrestles with God in prayer after a terrible accident. The movie does include too much foul language, however, even though some of it is mild and exclamatory.
Most of the bad language occurs in a few shouting matches between Patch and members of the medical establishment.
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