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((Infobox film
| name           = The Road to Wellville
| image          = Road to wellville ver1.jpg
| alt            = 
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Alan Parker]]
| producer       = ((Plainlist|
* Alan Parker
* [[Armyan Bernstein]]
* [[Robert F. Colesberry]]
))
| screenplay     = Alan Parker
| based_on       = ((Based on|''[[The Road to Wellville]]''|[[T. C. Boyle|T. Coraghessan Boyle]]))
| starring       = ((Plainlist|
* [[Anthony Hopkins]]
* [[Bridget Fonda]]
* [[Matthew Broderick]]
* [[John Cusack]]
* [[Dana Carvey]]
* [[Michael Lerner (actor)|Michael Lerner]]))
| music          = [[Rachel Portman]]
| cinematography = [[Peter Biziou]]
| editing        = [[Gerry Hambling]]
| studio         = [[Beacon Pictures|Beacon Communications]]
| distributor    = ((Plainlist|
* [[Columbia Pictures]] (United States)
* [[Myriad Pictures|J&M Entertainment]] (International)<ref>((cite web|title=Beacon, J&M pact for pix|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|first=Done|last=Groves|date=3 May 1993|access-date=10 December 2021|url=https://variety.com/1993/film/news/beacon-j-m-pact-for-pix-106485/))</ref>
))
| released       = ((Film date|1994|10|28))
| runtime        = 120 minutes<ref>((cite web |title=''The Road of Wellville'' (18) |website=[[British Board of Film Classification]] |url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/the-road-to-wellville-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0zmde0ndy |date=January 2, 1995 |access-date=July 26, 2023))</ref>
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $25 million
| gross          = $26 million<ref name=SI>((cite magazine|magazine=[[Screen International]]|date=August 30, 1996|pages=14–15|title=Planet Hollywood))</ref>
))
'''''The Road to Wellville''''' is a 1994 American [[comedy-drama]] film written, produced and directed by [[Alan Parker]], an [[film adaptation|adaptation]] of [[T. C. Boyle|T. Coraghessan Boyle]]'s [[The Road to Wellville|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, North Carolina|Winnabow]] and [[Wilmington, North Carolina|Wilmington]]. It received mixed reviews from critics.

==Plot==
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg opened a [[Sanatorium (resort)|sanitarium]] in [[Battle Creek, Michigan]], where he practiced his unusual methods for maintaining health, including [[colonic irrigation]], [[electrotherapy|electrical stimulus]] and [[sexual abstinence]], [[vegetarianism]] and physical exercise. The sanitarium attracts well-to-do patients including William and Eleanor Lightbody, who are suffering from poor health following the death of their child. On their way to Battle Creek they meet Charles Ossining, hoping to make a fortune by exploiting the fad for health food cereals.

Ossining finds a partner in Goodloe Bender. Having enlisted the services of George Kellogg, the doctor's estranged adopted son, they attempt to produce "Kellogg's Perfo Flakes".

In the sanitarium, Will Lightbody is separated from his wife, and is soon harboring lustful thoughts toward Nurse Graves and patient Ida Muntz. His wife Eleanor, meanwhile, befriends Virginia Cranehill, who has a modern attitude toward sexual pleasure, influenced by the works of Dr. Lionel Badger. Will eventually succumbs to Ida Muntz's charms. Later he learns that Ida has died during treatment. Following the [[electrocution]] of a patient in the defective [[sinusoidal]] bath, and the discovery of yet another death, Will suffers a breakdown, flees the sanitarium, gets drunk and eats meat. At a restaurant, he meets Ossining, and agrees to invest $1,000 in his health food business. Will returns drunk to the sanitarium, where he is reprimanded by Dr. Kellogg and is abandoned by a distraught Eleanor.

Ossining's business is a disaster, with no edible product. He and the partners resort to stealing Kellogg's cornflakes and repackaging them in their own boxes. Ossining meets his aunt, his sole investor, on visiting day at Kellogg's sanitarium, and is there exposed as a fraud and arrested.

Nurse Graves attempts to seduce Will, who is guilt-stricken and spurns her advances. He searches for Eleanor, only to find her and Virginia Cranehill receiving [[clitoral]] massages from Dr. Spitzvogel while Dr. Badger [[masturbates]]. Will is incensed, thrashes Dr. Spitzvogel with a branch and takes Eleanor away.

George Kellogg visits his father, but things go badly. George burns down the sanitarium. In the ensuing chaos, Ossining escapes. Kellogg seems to reconcile with George in the mud bath in the aftermath of the fire.

In a final coda, the Lightbodys have reconciled and are happily married, with four daughters. Will receives a check for $1,000 from Ossining, who has become a [[cola]] beverage tycoon. Dr. Kellogg dies of a heart attack while diving from a high board.

==Cast==
((cast listing|
* [[Anthony Hopkins]] as Dr. [[John Harvey Kellogg]]
* [[Matthew Broderick]] as William Lightbody
* [[Bridget Fonda]] as Eleanor Lightbody
* [[John Cusack]] as Charles Ossining
* [[Dana Carvey]] as George Kellogg
** [[Jacob Reynolds]] as Young George Kellogg
* [[Michael Lerner (actor)|Michael Lerner]] as Goodloe Bender
* [[Colm Meaney]] as Dr. Lionel Badger
* [[John Neville (actor)|John Neville]] as Endymion Hart-Jones
* [[Lara Flynn Boyle]] as Ida Muntz
* [[Traci Lind]] as Nurse Graves
* [[Camryn Manheim]] as Virginia Cranehill
* [[Roy Brocksmith]] as Poultney Dab
* [[Norbert Weisser]] as Dr. Spitzvogel
))

==Reception==
===Critical reception===
The film received mixed to negative reactions upon its release, with much criticism towards the scatological nature of the film. Hopkins' portrayal of Kellogg was also singled out for criticism. The film has a 39% rating on [[Rotten Tomatoes]] based on 18 reviews.<ref>((rotten-tomatoes|road_to_wellville|The Road to Wellville))</ref> Despite this, not all reviews were negative. Writing in ''[[Bright Lights Film Journal]]'', Tanfer Emin-Tunc commented: "It is a sophisticated blend of humor and documented historical material that seeks to question the various forms that race and class have assumed in twentieth-century American society."<ref>((cite web|title=Black and White Breakfast|url=http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/38/wellville1.htm|author=Tanfer Emin-Tunc|publisher=Bright Lights Film Journal|access-date=31 January 2008))</ref> [[Gene Siskel]] gave it a thumbs-down review, and was audibly displeased when [[Roger Ebert]] gave it a thumbs-up. Ebert said part of his positive review stemmed from his own interest in health foods and products.

===Box office===
The film opened at number 5 at the US box office with $2,580,108 in its opening weekend. It grossed $6,562,513 in the US and Canada and $26 million worldwide.<ref name="BOM">((mojo title|roadtowellville|The Road to Wellville))</ref><ref name=SI/> After regular showings on cable TV and a hard to find DVD release, the film became a cult classic and was finally released on Blu-ray by [[Shout! Factory]] in 2020.

== Year-end lists ==
* 5th worst&nbsp;– [[Peter Travers]], ''[[Rolling Stone]]''<ref>((cite magazine|last=Travers|first=Peter|date=December 29, 1994|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/the-best-and-worst-movies-of-1994-180969/|title=The Best and Worst Movies of 1994|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=July 20, 2020))</ref>
* 5th worst&nbsp;– [[Janet Maslin]], ''[[The New York Times]]''<ref>((cite web|last=Maslin|first=Janet|date=December 27, 1994|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/27/movies/critic-s-notebook-the-good-bad-and-in-between-in-a-year-of-surprises-on-film.html|title=CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; The Good, Bad and In-Between In a Year of Surprises on Film|work=The New York Times|access-date=July 19, 2020))</ref>
* Top 10 worst (not ranked)&nbsp;– Betsy Pickle, ''[[Knoxville News Sentinel]]''<ref>((cite news|last=Pickle|first=Betsy|date=December 30, 1994|title=Searching for the Top 10... Whenever They May Be|newspaper=Knoxville News-Sentinel|page=3))</ref>
* Guilty pleasure&nbsp;– Douglas Armstrong, ''The Milwaukee Journal''<ref>((cite news|last=Armstrong|first=Douglas|date=January 1, 1995|title=End-of-year slump is not a happy ending|newspaper=The Milwaukee Journal|page=2))</ref>
* Dishonorable mention&nbsp;– Glenn Lovell, ''[[The Mercury News|San Jose Mercury News]]''<ref>((cite news|last=Lovell|first=Glenn|date=December 25, 1994 |title=The Past Picture Show the Good, the Bad and the Ugly -- a Year Worth's of Movie Memories|newspaper=[[The Mercury News|San Jose Mercury News]]|page=3|edition=Morning Final))</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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* ((allrovi movie|134042|The Road to Wellville))
* ((mojo title|roadtowellville|The Road to Wellville))
* ((rotten-tomatoes|road_to_wellville|The Road to Wellville))

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