So, let me get this straight. Bill Davis, who is dying of pancreatic cancer, is about to draw his last breath, says goodbye to his wife & sons, & then dies with Patch holding his hand? Surely his family would want to be with him when he dies, but no, they say goodbye & leave the hospital & seem quite content to let his last moments be with a medical student??
shareMaybe she didn't want her kids to see him die.
shareI found it weird at first too, but then I figured that because the kids were so young, the mother didn't want to put them through having to watch their father die. The mother left with them because she couldn't leave them on their own. Or maybe even she herself didn't want to watch her husband die.
And I think it's safe to assume that Patch saw Bill more times than we got to see. They became friends during Bill's remaining time, and so it's really not that unnatural for Patch to see Bill before his death. That's how I took it, anyway.
But yeah, still kind of weird.
I had a major problem with this as well and was coming here to basically post the same thing you did. I can understand the mother not wanting her children there, but surely she would have come with another family member to watch them while she stayed. But Patch instead of his wife? Give me a break. The whole film was a joke and except for the fact that Patch existed, was having personal problems, went to medical school and started the Gesundheit Institute, it is almost pure fiction.
Sadly, the film takes away from the real man and what he is truly about.
Almost any time they make a comedy about a real person it is mostly fictional.
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