A patient in a rehabilitation center, while helping another patient, realizes that all he ever wanted to do was to help other. He decides to become a doctor. Adam's ideas, ways and means are outrageous and so he ends up becoming a thorn in the eye of the system.
The concept of the film is moving and content is good but the film is boring. Almost every scene is trite and overdone. Most the medical student only appear while clapping for Adams and that too with the same expressions. Its a serious film but director has made a fool out of the real character. Movie has serious problems. On few occasions it becomes very evident that Adams is doing everything for himself and not for others. The whole romantic angle is just too big a pain to bear in a film which is supposed to be 'philosophically elevating'. Then it becomes a fight between a hero and a villain. Except for a few scenes Patch Adams is a let down.
The concept of the film is moving and content is good but the film is boring. Almost every scene is trite and overdone. Most the medical student only appear while clapping for Adams and that too with the same expressions. Its a serious film but director has made a fool out of the real character. Movie has serious problems. On few occasions it becomes very evident that Adams is doing everything for himself and not for others. The whole romantic angle is just too big a pain to bear in a film which is supposed to be 'philosophically elevating'. Then it becomes a fight between a hero and a villain. Except for a few scenes Patch Adams is a let down.