The Road to Wellville (1994)
- Starring:
- Anthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda, (more)
- Director(s):
- Alan Parker
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
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This adaptation of the comic novel by T. Coraghessan Boyle is the story of real-life Corn Flakes inventor Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (Anthony Hopkins), an eccentric health nut in the early 20th century. Convinced of the benefits of holistic health practices (mostly involving irrigation of the bowels and colon), Kellogg opens a spa in Battle Creek, Michigan that immediately attracts the well-to-do of his time, including Will (Matthew Broderick) and Eleanor Lightbody (Bridget Fonda). A young couple with sexual and marital problems, the Lightbodys aren't helped much by the forced separation of sexes at Kellogg's sanitarium, and the situation is further exacerbated by Will's obliging nurse (Traci Lind) and Eleanor's encounters with a group of German sex therapists. Also at the spa are Charles Ossining (John Cusack), an ambitious con man who sees a fortune in Kellogg's cereal, and the unwashed, cretinous George Kellogg (Dana Carvey), one of the doctor's several dozen adopted children. A spoof as obsessed as its protagonist with its scatological subject matter, The Road to Wellville was an unusual effort for director-composer Alan Parker, known better for darker dramatic material and musicals. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 120 mins
Complete Cast:
- Anthony Hopkins - Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
- Matthew Broderick - Will Lightbody
- Dana Carvey - George Kellogg
- Michael Lerner - Goodloe Bender
- John Neville - Endymion Hart-Jones
- Camryn Manheim - Virginia Cranehill
- Norbert Weisser - Dr. Spitzvogel
- D. Anthony Pender - Waiter on Train
- James Bigwood - Reporter
- Carole Shelley - Mrs Hookstratten
- Marshall Erwin Efron - Bartholomew Bookbinder
- George Nannerello - Reporter
- Marianne Muellerleile - Nurse Bloethal
- Bridget Fonda - Eleanor Lightbody
- John Cusack - Charles Ossinging
- Lara Flynn Boyle - Ida Muntz
- Colm Meaney - Dr. Lionel Badger
- Traci Lind - Nurse Irene Graves
- Roy Brocksmith - Poultney Dab
- Gabriel Barre - Desk Clark
- John Henry Scott - Bath Attendant
- Ann Tucker - Hannah
- Monica Parker - Mrs Tindermarsh
- Mark Jeffrey Miller - Woodbine
- Richard Olsen - Fox Fur Man
- Michael Goodwin - Dr Frank Linniman
- Director(s):
- Alan Parker
- Writer(s):
- Alan Parker
- Producer(s):
- Alan Parker, Armyan Bernstein, Robert F. Colesberry
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R(Not For Children)
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