Goofs for
Patch Adams (1998) More at IMDbPro »

• Anachronisms: The Pablo Neruda poem used in the film (set in the early-to-mid-'70s) was not translated into English until 1986.
  
  
• Continuity: Position of Patch's hands and fingers in the first "How many fingers do you see?" scene.
  
  
• Continuity: The level of the drink in Truman's glass changes between shots when he is talking to Patch.
  
  

• Audio/visual unsynchronized: At the Gesundheit Institute, one of the patients is watching the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup (1933). But the audio track doesn't match the portion of the film shown on the television screen.
  
  
• Continuity: During the welcome scene at the school, the green folder on the desk/counter moves between shots.
  
  
• Factual errors: At one point in the movie, Patch says that humans are the only organisms on earth that kill their own kind; this is not the case - chimpanzees also do this.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Camera and boom equipment are visible (and in motion) in the door window as the gynecologists are approaching the door between the paper mache "legs" that Patch Adams prepared for their arrival.
  
  

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