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Patch Adams

 
In 1969, Hunter Adams was a troubled man who voluntarily committed himself into a mental institution. Once there, he finds that helping his fellow inmates there gives him a purpose in life. Thus inspired, he leaves the asylum and vows to become a doctor to help people professionally. However, what he finds at medical school is a sickeningly callous philosophy that advocates an arms-length attitude to the patients that does not address their emotional needs or the quality of their lives. "Patch" Adams is determined to find a better way to help them, although the consequences of his defiance of the rules and the authorities are severe.
Summary written by Kenneth Chisholm {kchishol@execulink.com}
Starring:
Robin Williams, Daniel London, Monica Potter, and Philip Seymour Hoffman



 

WaterBoy

Despite being the constant target of gross jokes and public humiliation from the university football team players he serves, lowly water boy Bobby Boucher loves his job and thinks dispensing water to dehydrated athletes is life's greatest calling.  However, when he is unceremoniously fired, for no reason other than pure ineptitude, Bobby gets a chance with a team that's clumsy with a football on the field as he is with a water jug on the side lines. 
 Summary courtesy of Touchstone Pictures
Starring:
Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Allen Covert, Blake Clark, Fairuza Balk


 

Dr. Dolittle (1998)

Eddie Murphy is the physician who talks to animals in this unamusing update of the 1967 musical, based on the stories by Hugh Lofting.
Summary courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox
Starring:
Eddie Murphy, Ossie Davis, Oliver Platt, Richard Schiff, Kristen Wilson



 
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