GESUNDHEIT INSTITUTE CLOSED PATCH
I think I'm going to marry this guy." Lynda and Patch were married in 1972 and have two sons. She went back to the dorm and told her friends "I just had the strangest date of my life. With twenty or so people in the room, no one could see anybody else, but whenever one person moved, everybody could feel it. "I filled my apartment with balloons from floor to ceiling. This includes the room-full-of-balloons scene. Corinne, who dies at the end of the film, is only very loosely based on Patch's real life wife Lynda, who Patch did meet at medical school like in the movie.Īs the real Patch Adams explained in an interview, certain aspects of his real life romance with his wife Lynda were injected into the film.
In the movie, Patch's girlfriend is a fellow med student by the name of Corinne Fisher (Monica Potter).
GESUNDHEIT INSTITUTE CLOSED MOVIE
Is Patch's girlfriend in the movie based on a real person? I like to think that that's who I am,Īnd so I think he was the only actor I wanted to play me, and I think he did a fabulous job, and my friends around the country are feeling that he gives that basic message." Pictured at left is Robin Williams laughing with the real-life Hunter 'Patch' Adams. In a CNN interview, Patch said the following, "I think Robin himself is compassion, generosity and funny. Was Patch happy with Robin Williams' performance in the movie? This included the services of a professional fundraiser for a period of time. Universal Pictures did however give Patch's Gesundheit Institute a grant to establish a fundraising infrastructure. The real Patch Adams didn't receive much money for the rights to his story. In the least, he had hoped that the release of the movie would have raised some awareness to what he is doing, which includes being on the road 300 days out of the year, giving as many as eleven lectures a day and visiting the sick all over the world, in countries such as Russia, Bosnia, Cuba, and Afghanistan.ĭid allowing the movie to be made help Patch's cause at all? Imagine how shallow that is relative to who I am." Patch had dreamed that the film might help him to raise enough money to build a 40-bed hospital on 310 acres of land in Pocohontas County, West Virginia. "I knew the movie would do this," Adams said. Patch admits that he never expected the movie to be a catalyst that would help spread his idea of care to the masses. They actually thought that they didn't know the person they were reading about." There were dumb, stupid, meaningless things.
In an interview with New Renaissance Magazine, the real Patch Adams responded to this question by saying the following, "After the movie, there wasn't a single positive article about our work or me. Did the media attention from the movie help the real Patch Adams' efforts?
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