The Road to Wellville
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Actor: Anthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda, Dana Carvey, John Cusack, Matthew BroderickDVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown); Chinese (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Taiwanese Chinese (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Chinese (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed); Taiwanese Chinese (Dubbed)
Format: Color, Dubbed, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
Published: 2002-09-01
DVD Release Date: 2002-09-10
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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DVD Review: Review 4 Stars
The Road to Wellville is a movie that's kinda slipped through the cracks. It didn't play long at the theater(I actually took a date to this movie!), and the reviews weren't favorable. Not alot of people know about this film, but those who do are split into two camps: Those who wish they hadn't heard of it and those who think it's hilarious. I think the biggest problem with this movie is that it didn't attract any audience of any kind. I mean, what crowd was this film directed towards? A lot of the humor is very below the belt stuff consisting of endless enema/fart/poop, and sex humor. Basically the kind of humor you would expect from an American Pie or Larry the Cable Guy kind of movie. Needless to say this is a crowd that wouldn't get within ten feet of a film that was a period piece set at the turn of the century. More high falootin filmgoers who like costume dramas and films set at the turn of the century probably wouldn't be too hot on the toilet humor. So, who was it aimed at? Apparently the small population of folks who like films set in the 19th century and get a chuckle out of massive amounts of yogurt being administered anally. The plot is simple, consisting of a married couple going to John Kellog's wacky health spa and being subjected to his insane philosophies and bowel obsessions, and ridiculous and pointless contraptions and "cures"(one of my favorites consists of a vertical wooden pole, fixed with either rubber or leather straps, that rotates around and seemingly has no other purpose than to slap you silly. Broderick is pretty funny as he walks around the pole covering his face as he's slapped by the contraption). Meanwhile, John Cusack is trying to get a cereal company up and running with a con man(Michael Lerner is great) and Kellog's son. It turns into a case of Murphy's law. Sex at the sanitarium is taboo and it's only a matter of time until a few folks succumb to their urges. The arrival of Colm Meany as a nudist/vegeterian/free love advocate doesn't help. To be honest, I'm not sure what the point actually is to this movie, but I find it very funny. It's bizarre to see this many high profile actors engaging in such goofiness, especially Hopkins. The film was directed by Alan Parker who's career has included many films very different from one another. He did the excellent Midnight Express, the musicals Pink Floyd The Wall and Evita, Mississippi Burning, and the supernatural thriller Angel Heart(you know, the one where Robert Deniro plays the devil and Mickey Rourke has sex with Lisa Bonet with all the chicken blood dripping on them) to name a few. Parker also wrote the script. I've read the book and I must say that Parker really adapted from this pretty freely. I don't know what his reasons were for so many changes and additions(the book is considerably less sexual), but I guess he had his reasons. So, if there is indeed such a thing as intelligent or classy toilet humor, I guess this is the example. I would certainly recommend it if you're looking for something a bit different, or just to see A-list actors doing stuff you probably won't ever see them doing again.Description of The Road to Wellville
This wrong-headed adaptation of the very funny (and scatological) novel by T. Coraghessan Boyle was written and directed by Alan Parker, who doesn't seem to have much of a clue. It's not a botch, just a movie that hammers its efforts at humor too hard. The focus is split between three story lines: the life of cereal tycoon John Kellogg (Anthony Hopkins with buck teeth), who has created a health spa for the wealthy that focuses on regular cleansing of the digestive tract (as well as applications of electricity); the troubles of an unhappy young couple (Matthew Broderick and Bridget Fonda), who come to the spa hoping to cure their marital ills (Broderick gets the worst of the deal); and the efforts of a young hustler (John Cusack), who is trying to break into the breakfast-cereal business but gets taken by an even bigger hustler (Michael Lerner). There are subplots about Kellogg's children but they add little. For all the doo-doo and enema jokes, the joys of this movie are distinctly scattered. "--Marshall Fine"Bestsellers in DVD
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