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The Road to Wellville

Anthony Hopkins (Actor), Bridget Fonda (Actor), Alan Parker (Director) Rated:

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Format	PAL
Contributor	Jim Bath, Michael Lerner, Traci Lind, Robert Tracey, John Henry Scott, Jacob Reynolds, Carole Shelley, Mary Lucy Bivins, Madeline Shaw, Barbara Phillips, Dana Carvey, Beth Bostic, Denise S. Bass, Ann Deagon, Roy Brocksmith, George Nannarello, Michael Goodwin, Camryn Manheim, Rich Valliere, James Bigwood, Richard H. Thornton, Mary Jane Corry, Anthony Hopkins, Richard K. Olsen, David Kraus, Alexander Slanksnis, Gabriel Barre, Lindsay Hutchinson Berte, Brendan Boyce, Mark Jeffrey Miller, Charlotte H. Ballinger, Monica Parker, John Neville, Lara Flynn Boyle, Marianne Muellerleile, Thomas Myers Jr., Ann Tucker, Jean Wenderlich, Sam Garner, Alan Parker, Jemila Ericson, Lisa Altomare, Robert J. Maxwell, Marshall Efron, Bridget Fonda, Kerry Maher, Norbert Weisser, Colm Meaney, D. Anthony Pender, John Cusack, William Hempel, Matthew Broderick, Joanne Pankow See more
Language	German

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.77:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches; 5.29 ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Alan Parker
Media Format ‏ : ‎ PAL
Actors ‏ : ‎ Anthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda, Matthew Broderick, John Cusack, Dana Carvey
Language ‏ : ‎ German (Dolby Digital 5.1)
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00004RYM9

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D. J. Larson

Hilarious

Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2023

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The story is set inside the real world of John Harvey Kellogg, the cereal guy. Kellogg and his clean living camp are the background for the comedic story so do not worry about it being a biopic. There was a PBS documentary about Kellogg that revealed that teh spa was even crazier in some ways than the movie. Anyway, I laughed out loud.

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Pen Lee

Masterpiece

Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2023

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Anthony Hopkins rules

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Mania

Hilarious British-style Satire

Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2023

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As someone raised as a Seventh-day Adventist, I can watch this movie with some knowledge about Kellogg and his practices as well as his theology. He believed in Pantheism, i.e.., the belief that God is in all things. He left the church around 1907 since he was disfellowshipped as a result of his pantheistic beliefs.

The movie itself is hilarious. I know that the director's depiction of Kellogg isn't totally accurate, but I also know that many of the things practiced at the San were as presented in the movie.

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Annie Van Auken

"With friends like you, who needs enemas?"

Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2013

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Despite a low IMDb rating (5.5), director Alan Parker's THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE (1994), is most definitely worth seeing. A movie that's bawdy in places and always witty, it's backed by Rachel Portman's amusing music score. Also has a great cast.

Anthony Hopkins portrays Dr. John Kellogg as a buck-toothed nut who "cures" his patients by various forms of torture, like yogurt enemas or surgical excision of intestinal "kinks." Dana Carvey is Kellogg's demented adopted son (all his dozen or more kids were adopted),

Matthew Broderick and Bridget Fonda are a couple with bedroom problems (plus Broderick can't keep food down), Camryn Manheim (from THE PRACTCE) is a real sex fiend, Colm Meaney's the quack who treats women patients by laying them, and Lara Flynn Boyle (of THE PRACTICE) is the woman Broderick gets involved with while his wife undergoes Meaney's upclose brand of therapy. By the way, Boyle looks bulimic in this film. When we see her naked body I'm sure it's some other woman's-- a composite shot.

Best of all is John Cusack, who's borrowed a grand from a maiden aunt and has come to Battle Creek hoping to duplicate Kellogg's successful Corn Flakes cereal with a knock-off brand of his own. His scenes with Carvey, who'll do anything to sabotage the "father" that was so cruel to him as a child, are some of the funniest in the film.

They try to set up a cereal factory in a filthy barn adjacent to a pig sty. Carvey's there to lend his last name to the product. A man is hired who supposedly baked corn flakes for Kellogg, but the stuff he turns out is ghastly; green or gray in color and so unappetizing even the pigs won't eat it.

At the Battle Creek Sanitarium (Wellville), people are dying of various causes: from electrocution in one of Kellogg's contraptions, of a heart attack or simply of starvation. Broderick realizes this but his wife is unconvinced, and now Dr. Kellogg intends to operate on Broderick to remove a portion of his intestine....

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happy camper

One of the funniest bathroom humor comedy of the ages....

Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2021

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With a great cast that doesn't end , I long have loved this movie to the fact I bought a German version to own it in blue-ray. I recently bought this movie in it's English version on blue ray and don't care about the money spent . It makes me laugh and laugh again It tells of an old hospital for the bowels ( called a sanitarium ) and the many zany people who visit it for " the cure " of their bowels or bad indigestion. It tells of many Quacks ( fake doctors ) and tells it in the most funny way .Anthony Hopkins once again proves his acting ability as the infamous Dr Kellogg of corn flake fame . His recipe for success is 15 gallons of yogurt , not to be eaten but delivered to a different orifice. While diagnosing enemas for his patients daily , he looks at sex as the killer of men( besides procreation). Matthew Broderick is a sans visitor with indigestion because of his wife s insistence to be there for the cure , which she had experienced before . Bridget Fonda plays the supportive wife. Broderick is great as the forever sexually aroused man . John Cusack plays a man they meet on the train to Wellville whose interests include getting rich in the breakfast food industry, Michael Lerner is the contriving schemer Cusack is looking for he has been burdened with his aunts money. All takes place in the 1800s.and the practices then were laughable now .All in all , one of my favorite comedies of all time....

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Goth Gone Grey

Fairly bonkers, entertaining ride

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2021

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This is a psychological roller coaster, including all sorts of stages of development echoed again and again in treatment.

Oral? Yes, eat healthy food, no filthy rotting disgusting meat. Bonus points for corn flakes and peanut butter, highly touted by Kellogg for his patients.

Anal? So, so many enemas. Gallons upon gallons of fluids pumped into unsuspecting rectums in the desire to clean from the inside out.

Sexual? As awful as filthy, rotting, disgusting meat. Don't do it, with anyone else or yourself, and don't even think about it.

Despite the above stern treatments, a burger or steak still holds immense appeal to the patients. Sex seems more natural than breathing, including a spanking machine, electrically stimulating shocks, devices meant to titillate, and rogue doctors from outside the San cheerfully helping women heal their female hysteria.

The language is suitably old fashioned, the costuming and sets phenomenal. Quite an interesting ride, though I'm certain I wouldn't book a vacation there.

Side note: This may be my favorite Dana Carvey role ever. Party On!

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Denise I.

Very entertainng

Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2023

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This movie is eye candy, silly, naughty, and fun. Very enjoyable -- but not for kiddies.

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Superb transaction !

Reviewed in Canada on October 9, 2020

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Simon Krautschick

Auf ins alte Amerika!

Reviewed in Germany on August 21, 2009

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Nachdem ich den Film in Deutsch kannte, wollte ich ihn gern im englischen Originalton hören. Ich empfinde den Film als eine gelungene Millieu-Studie, die die behandelte Zeit und Kultur wohl treffend darstellt. Die Altersbegrenzung P18 scheint mir aus Sicht eines deutschen Zuschauers etwas übertrieben. In Deutschland würde dieser Film wohl eher P12 eingestuft.

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Fran

Just brilliant!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 18, 2005

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This movie is, for me, one of the most wonderful entertainment I've ever had. Anthony Hopkins makes here an extraordinary performance. It has also a part of documentary as you can see how worked the old machinery used in the early 20th century wellness sanatoriums. The directing is brilliant and accurate. The music matches totally with what appears on the screen. The settings are beautiful and the coordination of all the extras, high numbered in this movie, is absolutely perfect, knowing how hard it is to achieve it. Bravo to Alan Parker and to all the cast and team. I love this movie and I watch it very often. No, no, no: no one paid me to write this review.

13 people found this helpful

Victoria Ludlow

Now I have it and I'm sure the recipient will be delighted as it's his favourite film ever

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 7, 2017

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Couldn't find the ANYWHERE! Now I have it and I'm sure the recipient will be delighted as it's his favourite film ever :)

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Mr. A Diaz

THE BOWELS! The Bowels are born again!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 14, 2014

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Based on the quasi historical novel by T.C. Boyle, Alan Parker's adaptation tells of the hijinks up at the Battle Creek sanatorium at the end of the 19th century. It is a centre of health mania, headed up by the one and only Dr. Kellogg (Hopkins), who believes carnal impulses are dangerous, and clean bowels are the end all, be all of personal health and hygiene. A young couple enters (Broderick and Fonda) to seek healing of their own, while a young entrepreneur (Cusack) and a disgraced son of Kellogg (Carvey) attempt to launch their own breakfast cereal brand.

A quirky & curious affair from the usually straight-laced veteran Parker, 'Wellville' boasts several enjoyable qualities. First off, we have a scene chewing Hopkins as Dr Kellogg, false teeth, cartoon accent and all, and he is a real treat to watch. The rest of the all-star cast all do satisfactory work, though none ever outshine Hopkins, with Broderick being mainly the suffering butt (pun very much intended) of the film's more anatomically-minded humour. Indeed, the playful contrast of period class and lowbrow gags does allow for a good few chuckles, and unlike your typical Sandler production, the sanatorium provides a decent context for the humour and is not gratuitous. This is all perfectly underscored by a zany soundtrack from romance veteran Rachel Portman, at points reminding me of Elfman's earlier works.

However, the film's endgoal is not quite clear, and does sometimes undercut the fun; is it a health craze satire, a personal story of real human nature and how it shouldn't be suppressed, or just a wacky romp? It's all of that, and yet, no one element ever feels like the forefront of the film, with Parker more interested in seeing Broderick get pumped full of enemas and yoghurt than using it to make much of a point. Plus, the pacing does wind down by the end, and it feels like the film could wrap up sooner than it does.
That being said, I rather enjoyed myself all the same. it's still perfectly watchable with enough strengths of its own to make for a unique title in Parker's distinguished catalogue.

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