http://www.tvguide.com/movies/patch-adams/133655 The latest on Patch Adams TV Guide RSS Publishing Engine V 1.0 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 1440 http://www.tvguide.com/images/tvg_rss_logo.gif http://www.tvguide.com/movies/patch-adams/133655 http://video.tvguide.com/ID/935435?rss=object <p><a href="http://video.tvguide.com/ID/935435?rss=object"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://video.tvguide.com/imagedepot.ashx?/PublishingImages/source/tvland.jpg" width="60" height="45" alt="Patch Adams Trailer" style="margin:0 5px 5px" /></a><b>Opened:</b> 10/05/1979</p> TV Land http://video.tvguide.com/ID/935435?rss=object Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:49:01 +0000 <p><a href="http://video.tvguide.com/ID/935435?rss=object"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://video.tvguide.com/imagedepot.ashx?/PublishingImages/source/tvland.jpg" width="60" height="45" alt="Patch Adams Trailer" style="margin:0 5px 5px" /></a><b>Opened:</b> 10/05/1979</p> Patch Adams Trailer http://video.tvguide.com/ID/812491?rss=object <p><a href="http://video.tvguide.com/ID/812491?rss=object"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://videodetective.com/photos/192/000808_37.jpg" width="60" height="45" alt="Patch Adams" style="margin:0 5px 5px" /></a>The fact-based story of an unconventional physician who attempted to heal patients with laughter, based on his own book and mixing equal doses of scatological humor and pathos. Robin Williams stars as Hunter Adams, a troubled young man who commits himself to a mental institution in the late 1960s. His experiences there convince Adams to become a doctor, and he enrolls in medical school, where he is appalled at the cold, clinical professionalism that alienates patients from their caregivers. Determined to provide emotional and spiritual relief as well as medicine, Adams clowns around for his patients, getting to know them personally. Although his efforts seem to work wonders and the hospital nursing staff is grateful for the levity Adams provides, his methods alienate his uptight roommate Mitch (Philip Seymour Hoffman) as well as the staff and faculty of his school. Adams perseveres, however, even starting his own low-cost rural clinic called the Gesundheit Institute, and wooing a pretty fellow student, Carin</p> Video Detective http://video.tvguide.com/ID/812491?rss=object Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:46:45 +0000 <p><a href="http://video.tvguide.com/ID/812491?rss=object"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://videodetective.com/photos/192/000808_37.jpg" width="60" height="45" alt="Patch Adams" style="margin:0 5px 5px" /></a>The fact-based story of an unconventional physician who attempted to heal patients with laughter, based on his own book and mixing equal doses of scatological humor and pathos. Robin Williams stars as Hunter Adams, a troubled young man who commits himself to a mental institution in the late 1960s. His experiences there convince Adams to become a doctor, and he enrolls in medical school, where he is appalled at the cold, clinical professionalism that alienates patients from their caregivers. Determined to provide emotional and spiritual relief as well as medicine, Adams clowns around for his patients, getting to know them personally. Although his efforts seem to work wonders and the hospital nursing staff is grateful for the levity Adams provides, his methods alienate his uptight roommate Mitch (Philip Seymour Hoffman) as well as the staff and faculty of his school. Adams perseveres, however, even starting his own low-cost rural clinic called the Gesundheit Institute, and wooing a pretty fellow student, Carin</p> Patch Adams http://www.tvguide.com/movies/patch-adams/photos/133655?rss=object <p><a href="http://www.tvguide.com/movies/patch-adams/photos/133655?rss=object"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://www.tvguide.com/magazine/covers/newimages/98111401.jpg" width="90" height="62" alt="Holiday Movie Preview" style="margin:0 5px 5px" /></a>Holiday Movie Preview</p> http://www.tvguide.com/movies/patch-adams/photos/133655?rss=object Sat, 14 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000 <p><a href="http://www.tvguide.com/movies/patch-adams/photos/133655?rss=object"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://www.tvguide.com/magazine/covers/newimages/98111401.jpg" width="90" height="62" alt="Holiday Movie Preview" style="margin:0 5px 5px" /></a>Holiday Movie Preview</p> Holiday Movie Preview http://www.tvguide.com/listings Get your local listings TV Guide Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:32:01 +0000