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| The Road to Wellville | |
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| Directed by | Alan Parker |
| Screenplay by | Alan Parker |
| Based on | The Road to Wellville by T. Coraghessan Boyle |
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| Cinematography | Peter Biziou |
| Edited by | Gerry Hambling |
| Music by | Rachel Portman |
Production companies | Beacon Communications Dirty Hands Productions |
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Running time | 120 minutes[2] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $25 million |
| Box office | $26 million[3] |
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.
Starring Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Broderick, Bridget Fonda, John Cusack, Dana Carvey and Colm Meaney, the film was shot in New Paltz, New York at the Mohonk Mountain House. Other locations were the North Carolina towns of Winnabow and Wilmington. It received mixed reviews from critics.
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- ^ "The Road of Wellville (18)". British Board of Film Classification. January 2, 1995. Retrieved July 26, 2023.
- ^ "Planet Hollywood". Screen International. August 30, 1996. pp. 14–15.