ABC-HD: Patch Adams 8pm EST

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Starring Robin Williams, Daniel London, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bob Gunton, Josef Sommer, Irma P. Hall and Peter Coyote.
The movie is loosely based on the life of Hunter "Patch" Adams and follows his experiences in the 1970s — beginning with his institutionalization because he is suicidal. When doctors are unable to help him, but the patients do, he is inspired to go to medical school. His training proves to him that medicine is impersonal and he begins to illegally treat the sick and dying with his own brand of irrepressible humor.

Successful with both his academic studies and the patients he's been treating, a humorless dean (Bob Gunton) seeks to have Adams expelled from the school. Adams also encounters resistance from his roommate (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and a female student (Monica Potter).

The 1998 film was directed by Tom Shadyac from the screenplay by Steve Oedekerk, based on the book Gesundheit: Good Health Is a Laughing Matter by Hunter Doherty Adams and Maureen Mylander.
 
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