The Road to Wellville
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.
Plot
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 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.
More details
| author | Alan Parker |
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| contentLocation | Michigan |
| director | Alan Parker |
| editor | Gerry Hambling |
| genre | comedy-drama |
| keywords | abandon adopted son arrest clitoral cola colonic irrigation dive electrical stimulus electrocution electrotherapy estrange health food heart attack married masturbate sanatorium sanitarium sexual abstinence sexual pleasure sinusoidal steal suffer their way vegetarianism |
| musicBy | Rachel Portman |
| producer | Alan Parker Armyan Bernstein Robert F. Colesberry |
| productionCompany | Beacon Pictures |
| publisher | Columbia Pictures J&M Entertainment |
| recordedAt | North Carolina |
| theme | satirical |