The Road to Wellville (Blu-ray) R
A comedy of the heart and other organs.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: June 23, 2020
- Originally Released: 1994
- Label: Shout Factory
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Anthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda, Matthew Broderick, John Cusack, Dana Carvey & Michael Lerner | |
Performer: | Colm Meaney, John Neville, Lara Flynn Boyle, Traci Lind, Camryn Manheim, Roy Brocksmith & Norbert Weisser | |
Directed by | Alan Parker | |
Edited by | Gerry Hambling | |
Screenplay by | Alan Parker | |
Original story by | T.C. Boyle | |
Composition by | Rachel Portman | |
Produced by | Alan Parker, Armyan Bernstein & Robert F. Colesberry | |
Director of Photography: | Peter Biziou | |
Executive Production by | Marc Abraham & Tom Rosenberg |
Entertainment Reviews:
...The movie is like an expedition through the digestive tract with gun and camera....It tells the story of an extraordinary period in the history of Battle Creek, Michigan...
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Much maligned Alan Parker comedy that looks better all the time
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: 1/5 --
Painful.
FilmsInReview.com
...No 1994 movie has been more lovingly designed, costumed or photographed...
USA Today
Rating: 4/5 --
Off-putting at first, this self-consciously scatological comedy does grow on one.
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eFilmCritic.com
Rating: 3/4 --
The movie is quite jolly in its preoccupation with digestion and the processes which precede and follow it.
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Chicago Sun-Times
One hilarious organic metaphor after another
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Product Description:
Based on the best-selling novel by T. Coraghessan Boyle, THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE satirizes late-19th-century health fads and medical procedures. The story focuses on Will Lightbody (Matthew Broderick) and his wife, Eleanor (Bridget Fonda), guests at the health spa of cereal mogul Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (Anthony Hopkins). The vacationing couple get more than they bargain for, however, when doctors separate the couple and force them to undergo an array of hilariously absurd medical treatments. Meanwhile, con artist Charles Ossining (John Cusack) and Kellogg's adopted son (Dana Carvey) plot to steal the doctor's coveted recipe for corn flakes.
THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE's highbrow humor lies somewhere between the stinging ironies of Terry Gilliam's BRAZIL and the spontaneous, madcap wit of the sketch comedy television show THE KIDS IN THE HALL. As he displayed in ANGEL HEART and PINK FLOYD: THE WALL, director Alan Parker is wonderfully adept at combining magic and mirth to make movies that entertain while subtly pressing forth a pointed moral lesson. A whimsical film, THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE mocks modernity and industrialization and warns viewers that sometimes even supposedly enlightened minds can lead society astray.
THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE's highbrow humor lies somewhere between the stinging ironies of Terry Gilliam's BRAZIL and the spontaneous, madcap wit of the sketch comedy television show THE KIDS IN THE HALL. As he displayed in ANGEL HEART and PINK FLOYD: THE WALL, director Alan Parker is wonderfully adept at combining magic and mirth to make movies that entertain while subtly pressing forth a pointed moral lesson. A whimsical film, THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE mocks modernity and industrialization and warns viewers that sometimes even supposedly enlightened minds can lead society astray.
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