Patch Adams

(Universal)

Robin Williams portrays the real-life Hunter "Patch" Adams, a former psychiatric patient turned medical student and crusader for a more humanized way of treating the ill. Set in the early '70s, the film shows Adams doing shtick for kids in the cancer ward, having run-ins with cardboard villain Dean Walcott (Bob Gunton), and winning the heart of fellow student Carin (Monica Potter). Laughter may be the best medicine, but the repeated sight of Robin Williams wearing a red rubber enema bulb on his nose can get emetic.