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Patch Adams: Summary - Papers

Patch Adams: Summary

Patch Adams who is played by Robin Williams shows a great personality in the movie “Patch Adams”
There is plenty of laughter in the movie as Robin Williams plays a fun and loving character who really care about other people.
Early on in the movie Patch Adams decides that he really wants to help other people when he is an a clinic where he has decided that he wanted to stay because he had tryied to commit suicide but he then signs him self out as he feels that he can help people.
He then goes to medical school and experiences some difficulty when some people don’t welcome him because he is older than them and because he doesn’t seem to study yet he does well there.
He meets a girl who at ...

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angry at Patch because patch seems to just fool around all the time where as he studies extremely hard yet patch gets higher grades than him.
The real high point in the movie comes when Patch Adams is attanding medical school and when they are at the hospital to look at patients and Patch Adams acts as a clown in a room filled with kids which really cheers them up.
He also makes friends with a man suffering from a very painful disease by using the same clown act though he did not succeed the first time he tried he did not give up, no he kept trying.
As the movie comes to an end Patch makes his dream come true by opening up his own hospital in order to help people.
So at the end Patch made his goal as he succeeded in helping people more than many people would and by devoting his life to cure ...

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Added: 5/28/2004 08:57:30 AM
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