Is Patch Adams actually good?

Patch Adams sits in the 39.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 39.9% of them.

How does Patch Adams compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Patch Adams lands in the 37.2% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Patch Adams's score based on?

257 calibrated reviewers stand behind Patch Adams's score.

1998

global pct

39.9

Film · 1998 · Films · 1990s

Patch Adams

Name: Patch Adams
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Released: 1998

Scored from 257 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

39.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

37.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

24.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

257 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Based on a true story, an unconventional medical student named Hunter 'Patch' Adams believes that laughter and genuine human connection are essential to healing. Clashing with a rigid medical establishment that prioritizes clinical detachment, he uses humor and compassion to treat patients while pursuing his dream of opening a free community clinic.

Patch Adams (1998) is a film IMDb files under the biography, comedy and drama genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 5,954 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 257 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 273 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.