

“Laughter is contagious.”
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.
Director
Screenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$50,000,000
Revenue
$202,292,902

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.


Dean Walcott
A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.