The Happiness In Life - Joy Layton

The happiness in life is what Robin Williams is trying to convey in the movie Patch Adams directed by Tom Shadyac. This movie shows people that there is always something good in a bad situation. This movie tells the story of how to overcome one's trials and tribulations and look for the good in people. This movie is based on a true story about a man that really wants to change what is really means to be a doctor and how these relationships are with their patients.

    Patch Adams doesn’t know his place in the world, doesn't know where he belongs.  So he checks himself into a mental hospital and that's where he finds his true calling after he helps a man cope with with his fears.

Finally, Patch knows what he wants to do he wants to help people and he is very determined.  He has seen the way that the doctors were treating people in the mental hospital and he wants that to change he wants the doctors to actually have a relationship with their patients and not for them to be just things but actually people.

    So Patch goes to college to be a doctor, Patch starts with pride and is determined to succeed but not everyone has that plan in mind for him.  Everyone else has a different plan for they think he is immature and not fit to be a doctor because he makes people laugh.

 But little did they know that Patch was going to change the future for doctors everywhere.

Patch is at the top of his class scoring the highest grades than anyone else, that is why everyone despises him and his happy attitude so a lot of people try anything they can to tear him down.  

Patch loves the patients and he can't stay away from the hospital he wants to be there making them laugh and having fun with them.  But the administrator was not having it he told Patch that if he was to continue at this school then he was not to step a foot into the hospital until the third year.  But Patch can’t do that he loves the people too much.

    Patch decided to open his own type of hospital where people can come and stay and be treated and not have to pay for it.  Patch makes a lot of friends when he does it but one more than a friend he falls in love with a girl named Carin (Monica Potter) who gives him the cold shoulder for a while but she warms up to him and helps him with his hospital.

 One day and man came in and Carin felt uneasy about him but Patch took him in anyways but that was a big mistake.  Carin went to his house after a distress call and the man killed her and turned the gun on himself as well.

    Patch was very heartbroken but he didn’t give up.  The administrator tried to get Patch kicked out but Patch wasn’t having that either he took it to the council and won the case.  Patch graduated and changed the face of history.  He opened his own clinic for people without health insurance that way everyone could be treated no matter what.  A sad but very happy ending for a lot of people. Definitely a must watch and a great heart warming movie.