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The Road to Wellville. 496 p. The Road to Wellville is a 1993 novel by American author T. C. Boyle. [1] Set in Battle Creek, Michigan, during the early days of breakfast cereals, the story includes a historical fictionalization of John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of corn flakes . The title comes from an actual booklet called "The Road to ...
- T. Coraghessan Boyle
- 496 p.
- 1993
- May 1, 1993
The Road to Wellville is a 1994 American comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by Alan Parker, an 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 employed at the Battle Creek Sanitarium at the beginning of the 20th century.
- $25 million
- Rachel Portman
- October 28, 1994
William Lightbody : Oh, no, no, I can't eat fifteen gallons of yoghurt. Dr. John Harvey Kellogg : Oh, it's not going in that end, Mr. Lightbody. William Lightbody : You were masturbating! Dr. Lionel Badger : I was not! I was massaging my colon! William Lightbody : Massaging your colon! I know where the colon is and it doesn't stick up in the air!
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Characters. In portraying Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, Boyle exaggerates certain traits of the historical figure who actually did invent corn flakes and start a Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan ...
May 1, 1993 · T. Coraghessan Boyle. 3.69. 6,572 ratings469 reviews. Will Lightbody is a man with a stomach ailment whose only sin is loving his wife, Eleanor, too much. Eleanor is a health nut of the first stripe, and when in 1907 she journeys to Dr. John Harvey Kellogg's infamous Battle Creek Spa to live out the vegetarian ethos, poor Will goes too.
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Rent The Road to Wellville on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. A staunch advocate of healthy living, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (Anthony Hopkins) opens a ...
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A madcap portrayal of William Lightbody's (Matthew Broderick's) stay at the health farm run by cereal King Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (Sir Anthony Hopkins). William's wife, Eleanor (Bridget Fonda), has persuaded him to go to Kellogg to have his system cleaned of impurities. Kellogg is very unconventional, and almost barbaric in his treatments.
