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Patch Adams
MEANRANK
63/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3523
- IMDb #2395
- Google retired #1182
- Rotten Tomatoes #3872
- Metacritic #4759
- Letterboxd #2125
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5048
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2297
- Metacritic Critics #4891
- Metacritic Audience #3955
- Criticker #2594
- Douban #444
- Kinopoisk #420
- AlloCiné #1805
- Trakt #1524
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 22, highest is Google on 90. Critics average 24, everyone else 71.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A medical student believes that laughter and compassion are as important to healing as medicine. He challenges the staid conventions of his medical school by using humor to connect with patients, often clashing with the disapproving administration. His goal is to build a medical center that treats the patient as a whole person, not just a collection of symptoms.
Details
- Director
- Tom Shadyac
- Writer
- Steve Oedekerk
- Released
- 25 December 1998
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $50.0M
- Box office
- $202.3M
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Cast
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Awards
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 1 win & 7 nominations total
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