The Road to Wellville Movie Review 1994

Corn flake magnate John Harvey Kellogg takes good health to an intestine-invading extreme in this spa satire featuring Hopkins as the buck-toothed Kellogg. Broderick and Fonda portray a wealthy couple who visit the turn-of-the-century sanitarium in search of Kellogg's cure, but receive only sexual frustration and anal humiliations. Bowel jokes and an essentially plotless scenario overshadow a gifted, but helpless cast. Adapted from T. Coraghessan Boyle's not-so-easily-adaptable novel.

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS
Running time 120 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Disease of the Week, Flatulence, Doctors & Nurses, Period Piece: 1900s, Sex & Sexuality

Screenplay

Alan Parker

Cast

Anthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda, Matthew Broderick, John Cusack, Dana Carvey, Michael Lerner, Colm Meaney, John Neville, Lara Flynn Boyle, Traci Lind, Roy Brocksmith, Norbert Weisser

Cinematography

Peter Biziou

Director

Alan Parker

Music

Rachel Portman

Producer

Alan Parker, Armyan Bernstein, Robert F. Colesberry, Tom Rosenberg, Marc Abraham, Beacon Films, Dirty Hands