The Whole Wide World Movie Review 1996

Adaptation of Novalyne Price Ellis' memoirs about her friendship with "Conan the Barbarian" pulp writer Robert E. Howard. In 1933, proper young Cross Plains, Texas schoolteacher (and aspiring writer) Price (Zellweger) arranges an introduction to local eccentric Howard (D'Onofrio), who lives with his overprotective, dying mother (Wedgeworth) and respected doctor father (Presnell) while churning out his bloody tales. Howard has few, if any, social skills but his unpredictability appeals to the sensible Price and the two have a turbulent emotional relationship that never blooms into a full romance. Howard committed suicide in 1936 at the age of 30.

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 111 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Writers, True Stories, Adapted from Memoirs or Diaries, Period Piece: 1930s

Screenplay

Michael Scott Myers, Novalyne Price Ellis

Cast

Renee Zellweger, Vincent D'Onofrio, Ann Wedgeworth, Harve Presnell, Helen Cates, Benjamin Mouton, Michael Corbett, Marion Eaten, Leslie Berger, Chris Shearer, Sandy Walper, Dell Aldrich, Libby Villari, Antonia Bogdanovich, Elizabeth D'Onofrio, Stephen Marshall

Cinematography

Claudio Rocha

Director

Dan Ireland

Music

Hans Zimmer, Harry Gregson-Williams

Producer

Carl-Jan Colpaert, Kevin Reidy, Dan Ireland, Vincent D'Onofrio, Donald Kushner, Peter Locke, Gregory Cascanate, Kushner Locke Company, Cineville, Republic Entertainment Inc.