' 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. Imagine how shallow that is relative to who I am. 'I knew the movie would do this,' Adams said. They actually thought that they didn't know the person they were reading about.' Patch admits that he never expected the movie to be a catalyst that would help spread his idea of care to the masses. There were dumb, stupid, meaningless things. From: http: //Did the media attention from the movie help the real Patch Adams' efforts? 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. The true story of a heroic man, Hunter Patch Adams, determined to become a medical doctor. With Robin Williams, Daniel London, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Did the real Patch Adams really contemplate suicide like. In the movie, Patch's girlfriend is a fellow med student by the name of Corinne.
