Patch Adams

Patch Adams

Laughter is contagious.

1998-12-25 115 min ★ 7.3

Director 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.

Trailer

Cast

Mrs. Davis (as Karen Michel)

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Barry Shabaka Henley

Michael Stanton Kennedy

Gynecologist (as Michael Kennedy)

Douglas Roberts

Vivis Colombetti

Hysterical Woman (as Vivis)

Walcott's Secretary

Orderly (uncredited)

Dot-Marie Jones

James Anthony Cotton

Pediatric Nurse

Michael X. Sommers

Ellen Albertini Dow

Ismael 'East' Carlo

Hispanic Father

Orderly (as Kelvin Yee)

Frances Lee McCain

Arthur Mendelson