Anthony Hopkins
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
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Oct 28, 1994 · The Road to Wellville: Directed by Alan Parker. With Anthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda, Matthew Broderick, John Cusack. A story about the ins and outs of one unusual health facility in the early twentieth century, run by the eccentric Dr. John Harvey Kellogg.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Alan Parker
- 1994-10-28
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg opened a sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, where he practiced his unusual methods for maintaining health, including colonic irrigation, electrical stimulus and sexual abstinence, vegetarianism and physical exercise. The sanitarium attracts well-to-do patients including William and Eleanor Lightbody, who are suffering ...
Battle Creek Sanitarium is depicted in the American 1994 film The Road to Wellville by Alan Parker, with British actor Anthony Hopkins playing a highly fictionalized Dr. J.H. Kellogg in one of the leading roles. This movie ends with the fire of the sanitarium building complex.
John Harvey Kellogg, a doctor fond of health food and what would now be called alternative medicine, inserts himself into the life of each character, whether as health guru to Eleanor, competitor to Charlie and Bender, or torturer of Will. His attempts at untested health cures, such as radium treatments, are comically tragic.
- T. Coraghessan Boyle
- 1993
Matthew Broderick. William Lightbody. John Cusack. Charles Ossining. Dana Carvey. George Kellogg. Watchlist. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. A staunch advocate of healthy living, Dr. John Harvey...
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- Alan Parker
- R
- Anthony Hopkins
Oct 28, 1994 · The movie tells the story of several pilgrims drawn to Battle Creek by Dr. Kellogg's famed Sanitarium (not to be confused with a sanitorium), to take the cure and have pounds of toxic sludge blasted from their intestines.
Jul 29, 2010 · Meanwhile, the fictional Eleanor and William Lightbody (Bridget Fonda and Matthew Broderick) arrive at the sanitarium hoping to save their marriage as well as their health.
