Williams portrays "Patch"Adams, this manin his thirties that just checked himself into an asylum for trying to commit suicide. There he meets several people who have had it hard in their life. There he discovers that one good way to get peoples worry off their mind is to laugh. There he discovers what he wants to do with his life he wants to help people. What better career to do that than a doctor, but when he enters doctors school, he finds out that the deans were against his form of healing andt hat he wouldn not be able to even