Archives:  A - E      F - N      O - Z       Posters       Message Boards     
Who We Are and Why We Do What We Do

Your Donations support the Site

Buy Cranky stuff

Buy Movie Posters

   BLU-RAY DVDs:
Batman Begins
Black Hawk Down
Blade Runner
Casino Royale
Dark Knight
District Nine
Defiance
Fast and Furious
Fast and Furious movies set
Fifth Element
The Hangover
Incredible HULK
Inglorious Basterds
Iron Man
Kill Bill 1 & 2
James Bond Ultimate ed v1James Bond Ultimate ed v2James Bond Ultimate ed v3
Julie & Julia 
Moon
Public Enemies
Rambo box set
Silence of the Lambs
Sin City
This is Spinal Tap
Terminator
Terminator Salvation
Terminator 2
Top Gun
Total Recall
300
Transformers: Revenge of Fallen
Ultimate Matrix coll
Twilight
Underworld
Watchmen (dir cut)
X-Men Trilogy
X-Men Wolverine

BLU-Ray for family DVDs
Bolt
A Bug's Life
Cars
Chronicles of Narnia set
Coraline
Ghostbusters
Harry Potter & Chamber of Secrets
& Goblet of Fire
& Order of Phoenix
& Prisoner of Azkaban
& Sorcerers Stone
Ice Age/Alvin + Chipmunks set
The Incredibles
Jungle Book
Juno
Kung Fu Panda
Monsters Inc
Nightmare Before Xmas
101 Dalmatians
Pinocchio
Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy
Pixar short films
Ratatouille
Santa Clause
Santa Clause 2
Sleeping Beauty
Spiderwick Chronicles
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White & 7 Dwarfs
Star Trek motion pictures set
Star Wars Prequel Trilogy (1-3)
Star Wars Trilogy (4-6)
Transformers SE
Wallace and Gromit
Wall-E SE

Search engine by FreeFind

click to search site

        Now in Release:
    2012
A Perfect Getaway
The Blind Side
A Christmas Carol
An Education
Fifty Dead Men Walking
Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
Invictus
Is Anybody There?
It's Complicated
Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
The Lovely Bones
My Sister's Keeper
New in Town
Nine
Pirate Radio
Precious
The Proposal
Red Cliff
The Road
Shrink
St. Trinian's
The Strip
Surrogates
Taken
The Uninvited
Up in the Air
Young Victoria

    DVDs on Sale:
Aliens Quadrilogy (set)
An American in Paris
Batman Begins
Blade Runner
Coraline
The Dark Knight
Day the Earth Stood Still
Defiance
Die Hard collection 1-4
District Nine
Last Days of Fillmore West
Fast & Furious movies set
Forrest Gump
Gone With the Wind
The Hangover
Alfred Hitchcock set
Indiana Jones trilogy
Inglorious Basterds
Iron Man SE
Lord of Rings 12 discs
Marx Bros set
Ultimate Matrix set
Milk
Monty Python - Holy Grail
Moon
Public Enemies
Sin City
South Park Movie
Star Wars Trilogy (1-3)
Star Wars Trilogy (4-6)
Terminator Salvation
Up
Wall-E
Watchmen - Ultimate cut
Woodstock
X-Men Trilogy
X-Men Origins Wolverine

DisneyPixar & family DVDs
Alice in Wonderland
Bambi
Beauty and the Beast
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Bolt
Cinderella
Coraline
E.T.
Harry Potter yrs 1-4 set
Harry Potter
 & Chamber of Secrets
 & Goblet of Fire
 & Prisoner of Azkaban
 & Sorcerers Stone
 & Order of Phoenix
Kung Fu Panda
The Lion King
Mary Poppins 45th LE
Pinocchio
Ratatouille
Santa Clause
Santa Clause 2
Shrek Trilogy
Simpsons Movie
Spider-Man Trilogy
Star Trek movies set
Star Trek TOS (TV)
ST:TNG complete tv set
Star Wars Trilogy (1-3)
Star Wars Trilogy (4-6)
Wallace and Gromit
Wall-E SE

Looney Toons
Golden Age DVD
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4
Volume 5
Volume 6
Rocky & Bullwinkle DVD
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Popeye the Sailor DVD
v.1  1933 - 1938
v.2  1938 - 1940
v.3 1941 - 1943
75th anniversary coll.ed.

Privacy Policy

	Patch Adams Starring Robin Williams Screenplay by Steve Oedekerk Based on a book by Hunter Adams Directed by Tom Shadyac Website: www.patchadams.com

IN SHORT: A Superior date flick

Here's the net result of twenty years of dating, offered to all you teenboys who are so hard up you have nothing better to do than speculate as to my particular preferences. For the first hour of Patch Adams, you can ease back and guffaw all you want as Robin Williams' character commits himself to a mental institution (suicide watch) and then heads to medical school where he is not only a decade older than everyone else he's also smarter than everybody else. Adams passes the time with an enema bulb on his nose, making like a clown in the kidlet's ward of a Virginia teaching hospital.

For the second hour, you'll best be ready to hand over the tissues (or at least offer to pound a spigot into the side of your date's head, so that the tears are redirected and she can stay focussed on the screen) as the movie makes a serious swerve into tearjerker drama. Keep a straight face, or even go for a bit of red eye, and you'll instantaneously elevate yourself in her eyes from the pond scum that they think we are. [Sorry. I'm showing my age...]

Patch Adams is based on the lifestory of a Doctor who really did take the radical notion that patients are people and that good humor is beneficial to their well being. Basically, he got doctors to lighten up and, apparently, continues to do so to this day, having sold his story to raise money to build the hospital center of his dreams. Adams' behavior tweaked the nose of the medical establishment, opened the minds of stuffy doctor wannabe students and landed a Julia Roberts lookalike as his movie girlfriend. Way to go Patch.

Now, Cranky's gonna be honest. If anyone had come into Cranky's room during the year or so while the Halo brace was screwed into my skull and started cracking jokes, I would have killed him. Literally. I mean it. Then again, if it is because of doctors like Hunter Adams that my neurosurgeon felt safe hanging his head down and crying in front of me, when he informed me that my surgeries had failed and I could be facing quad paralysis in ten years, then this guy's life is a good thing.

It would not be diss to say that Robin Williams is developing into his own particular genre of movie star, in the manner of Gary Cooper or Cary Grant. You will always find his extreme ability to find humor in humorless situations charming; his ability to take the air out of a stuffed shirt enabling; his willingness to wear his hear on his sleeve touching. This movie is, at its heart, all Williams (which is why I've not mention his co-stars) who holds his own through ending after ending after ending in the screenplay by Steve Oedekerk. It's probably 'cuz my back is all shot to hell, folks, but Patch Adams starts feeling long as multiple stories work towards conclusion one after another. My ex'll be a puddle on the floor when she sees the movie. One major spigot turning is more than enough for me, and Patch Adams delivers at least two of ‘em.

On average, a first run movie ticket will run you Eight Bucks. Were Cranky able to set his own price to Patch Adams, he would have paid . . .

$6.50

Just so's you know. Cranky passed the ten year mark in September and everything's working just fine.