The Road to Wellville
Director: Alan Parker
Genre: Comedy, Black comedy, History, Parody, Screwball comedy, Comedy-drama
Year: 1994
Country: United States of America, United Kingdom
Language: English Language
Starring: Matthew Broderick, John Cusack, Anthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda, Lara Flynn Boyle, Michael Lerner, Camryn Manheim, John Neville, Colm Meaney, Dana Carvey, Traci Lind
The Road to Wellville is a 1994 American comedy-drama film adaptation of T. Coraghessan Boyle's novel of the same name, which tells the story of the doctor and clean-living advocate John Harvey Kellogg and his methods as employed at the Battle Creek Sanitarium at the start of the 20th Century. It was written and directed by Alan Parker.
The film stars Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Kellogg, Matthew Broderick as William Lightbody, Bridget Fonda as his spouse Eleanor, John Cusack as Charles Ossining, Dana Carvey as the doctor's adopted son George, and Colm Meaney as Dr. Lionel Badger.
It was filmed in New Paltz, New York at the Mohonk Mountain House. Also used were the North Carolina towns of Winnabow and Wilmington.
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg has opened a sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, where he puts into practice his unusual methods for maintaining health, including colonic irrigation, electrical stimulus and sexual abstinence, as well as vegetarianism and physical exercise. The sanitarium attracts a number of well-to-do patients including William and Eleanor Lightbody, who are suffering from ill health following the premature death of their child. On their way to Battle Creek they meet
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