After a suicide attempt, Hunter Adams (a shamelessly mugging Robin Williams: What Dreams May Come, Good Will Hunting) commits himself to a mental hospital, where he discovers how adorable and noble and wacky the mentally unstable can be. The movie opens with an upbeat remake of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Hunter Adams, upon which this distasteful tripe is based, was not so contrived as Patch Adams would have us believe. I can only hope that the medical education of Dr. On the other hand, it’s so painfully awful that doctors may have been pleased when the number of ER visits shot up as people ran straight from movie theaters to hospitals in diabetic shock over this sugary, gooey, treacly excuse for a film.
The medical industry could not have been happy with Patch Adams.
