Patch Adams - Laughter is contagious.

This movie is based on a true story, that say about the life of one man: Hunter Patch Adams.
Hunter is a pesrson whot doesn`t know what to do in life, but he isn`t more a young guy, he is old. Because of this his life doesn`t have sense. After a suicide attempt he decided seeks psychiatric help and is institutionalized, because he thing he is crazy.

Living there he see a lot of strange things and one day in meeting he start to make jokes with the others patients, and he realized that with smiles they feel better. When the meet finish, he goes to his room and helps his friend, a crazy guy that has fear to go to the bathroom, because he see imaginary squirrels. Like two boys they start to play, with a lot of imagination Adams suppose is in war versus the squirrels. After kill all them, his friend went to the washroom. In this moment, Hunter discovered that he was born to help people.

Two years late, he goes to a medicine University "Virginia Medical Universityand" in his first daym his roommate says to that he is very old to start medicine school. But he doesn`t worry about this. He start to the school, but he never study, every time he was having funny with others, however this doesn`t affect his scores, Adams was one of the best in the school.
Hunter always complaint the school rules, because he wants to help the patients, and he can`t because only the third years students can go to the hospital.
But Hunter never follow the rules, and he start to goes hidden to the hospital.

One day he enter in a room with a lot of children, he wore a clown clothes and start to play the fool, he really believes in laughter as medicine. The children love it.
Because of this type of behavior he is dismissed from the school althougth he is later reinstated.
With two friends, Corinne and Truman, Hunter makes a clinic to help patients without medical insurance. Corinne is fascinated by Patch`s talent and their friendship turns into deep love. But one day Corinne try to help a psychologically disturbed patient, Larry. But Larry kill her and himself.

Patch is devastated by Corinne`s death, and reconsiders his outlook and question the goodnes of humanity. But after see a butterfly he understand the way of life and returned to the university.
Dimissed from the school for a second time because he ran a clinic and praticed medicine without a license he must attend a hearing where it is decided whether he can graduate.
Patch is able to convince the jury in a final speech that he did his best to help the patients. On this time, a lot of children enter in the jury wearing clown noses, this make the jury think about somethings.
In the end Patch recieved his graduation.
Patch Adams was the first doctor to develop the laughter medicine.