Actors Bill Kerr, Tim McKenzie, and Graham Dow appeared in both 'Gallipoli' (1981) and 'The Lighthorsemen' (1987) - both epic Australian pictures about World War I which were both partly and significantly filmed in South Australia. Also working on both productions were fxperts Steve Courtley and Roger Cowland, machinist / costume designer David Rowe, and horse wrangler Bill Willoughby.
Patch Adams - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Phillip Seymour Hoffman appeared with Jeff Bridges in The Big Lewbowski (1998), Robin Williams would appear with Jeff Bridges in The Fisher King (1991)
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Patch's (Robin Williams) roommate in the mental hospital is played by Michael Jeter. In The Fisher King (1991), Jeter also played an insane companion of Williams'.
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When Patch is sitting in the University Diner with his new med school friend, Truman (played by Daniel London), Truman says he's "always been fascinated by the development of the human mind. Patch replies, "oh, pumping neurons." 5 years earlier, when Robin Williams played the eponymous lead in "Mrs. Doubtfire," he's telling the kids (he tells his own kids while he's dressed as Mrs. Doubtfire) to go do their homework, he tells them (among other exhortations), "Go, pump some neurons."
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Monica Potter performed her final audition for her role in Robin Williams' house in front of his wife. Although riddled with flu at the time, Potter still had to play out an intimate kissing scene.
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In 2014, co-stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Williams died within nearly six months of each other.
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The song "Faith of the Heart" performed in this film by Rod Stewart, was later used as theme song of Star Trek: Enterprise (2001). Randy Oglesby, who plays "Pinstriped Man" in this film, played a recurring antagonist in Enterprise's 3rd season.
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When Dean Walcott is walking down the hall, right before he enters the room where Patch is playing with the hospital bed, there is a page that comes over the intercom for Dr. Maslow to dial 214. Dr. Abraham Maslow, noted psychologist, developed the "Hierarchy of Needs" that explains how the personality reacts to environmental factors and needs.
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The fifth time Robin Williams played a doctor in the space of nine years, after Awakenings (1990), Nine Months (1995), Good Will Hunting (1997), and What Dreams May Come (1998).
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Michael Jeter, who plays the unstable mental patient, Rudy, went on to play a mentally unstable prisoner on death row in The Green Mile (1999).
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The poem that Patch reads to Carin is an English translation of "Sonnet XVII" by Pablo Neruda (see Goofs).
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During filming, Robin Williams and the rest of the cast and crew worked closely with the Make-A-Wish Foundation to fulfill the fantasies of several children who were at the time undergoing cancer treatment. The children appeared with Williams in scenes at the pediatric ward.
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Robin Williams accepted the lead role because he was previously offered Jim Carrey's role of Fletcher Reede in director Tom Shadyac's previous film Liar Liar (1997). Williams declined that role and the film went on to become an enormous box office success. As a result he asked Shadyac if he could have a role in his next film which turned out to be this movie. Shadyac offered it to him and he immediately accepted.
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In real life, Patch Adams close friend who was murdered was a man, not a female love interest. Carin is a fictional character.
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After Patch catches up to Carin when she has stormed out of the study group, he makes a reference to Walt Whitman. In Dead Poets Society (1989), Walt Whitman is the favorite poet of Mr. Keating, also played by Robin Williams.
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Bill Murray declined the role of Hunter "Patch" Adams.
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While the real Patch Adams made a brief cameo in the film, he "hated" the film and the portrayal of himself.
Patch Adams - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Patch Adams - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Patch Adams - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Patch Adams - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Patch Adams - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Patch Adams - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Patch Adams - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Patch Adams - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Patch Adams - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Patch Adams - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Patch Adams - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Patch Adams - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Patch Adams - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Patch Adams - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Patch Adams - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Patch Adams - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Patch Adams - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Patch Adams - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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