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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
Email: BLPgirl@aol.com (Brittany
Parks)
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