The Road to Wellville [Blu-ray]

This movie, which I recommend as one of the major comedies of all time, shows how the promise of Health is the open sesame to the sucker’s purse. Watch it and you will laugh your head off. It tells of the famous San and the kind of zany people who visited it for " the cure " of their bowels or the Green Disease or their neuroses or whatever. There is some exaggeration for the fun of it but basically the film gives a realistic impression of what the San was like in the 1880s and what happened there. Anthony Hopkins once again proves his acting ability as the infamous Dr Kellogg, the director of the San. His recipe for success is a 15-gallon daily enema followed by yogurt, by mouth and per rectum. “With a friend like him, who needs an enema,” says one of the patients. While prescribing enemas for his patients daily, Doctor Kellogg saw sex as the killer that hastens the death of both men and women. Hence, sex at the San was prohibited, a no-no. But, despite the good doctor’s prohibition, that no-no never works for long in the movie or for that matter in life itself. After you watch the movie, read the book which is more historically accurate and even more fun.

Another shout factory selection.Decent 90s dramedy

Good movie

Despite a low IMDb rating (5.5), director Alan Parker's THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE (1994), is most definitely worth seeing. A movie that's bawdy in places and always witty, it's backed by Rachel Portman's amusing music score. Also has a great cast.Anthony Hopkins portrays Dr. John Kellogg as a buck-toothed nut who "cures" his patients by various forms of torture, like yogurt enemas or surgical excision of intestinal "kinks." Dana Carvey is Kellogg's demented adopted son (all his dozen or more kids were adopted),Matthew Broderick and Bridget Fonda are a couple with bedroom problems (plus Broderick can't keep food down), Camryn Manheim (from THE PRACTCE) is a real sex fiend, Colm Meaney's the quack who treats women patients by laying them, and Lara Flynn Boyle (of THE PRACTICE) is the woman Broderick gets involved with while his wife undergoes Meaney's upclose brand of therapy. By the way, Boyle looks bulimic in this film. When we see her naked body I'm sure it's some other woman's-- a composite shot.Best of all is John Cusack, who's borrowed a grand from a maiden aunt and has come to Battle Creek hoping to duplicate Kellogg's successful Corn Flakes cereal with a knock-off brand of his own. His scenes with Carvey, who'll do anything to sabotage the "father" that was so cruel to him as a child, are some of the funniest in the film.They try to set up a cereal factory in a filthy barn adjacent to a pig sty. Carvey's there to lend his last name to the product. A man is hired who supposedly baked corn flakes for Kellogg, but the stuff he turns out is ghastly; green or gray in color and so unappetizing even the pigs won't eat it.At the Battle Creek Sanitarium (Wellville), people are dying of various causes: from electrocution in one of Kellogg's contraptions, of a heart attack or simply of starvation. Broderick realizes this but his wife is unconvinced, and now Dr. Kellogg intends to operate on Broderick to remove a portion of his intestine....

With a great cast that doesn't end , I long have loved this movie to the fact I bought a German version to own it in blue-ray. I recently bought this movie in it's English version on blue ray and don't care about the money spent . It makes me laugh and laugh again It tells of an old hospital for the bowels ( called a sanitarium ) and the many zany people who visit it for " the cure " of their bowels or bad indigestion. It tells of many Quacks ( fake doctors ) and tells it in the most funny way .Anthony Hopkins once again proves his acting ability as the infamous Dr Kellogg of corn flake fame . His recipe for success is 15 gallons of yogurt , not to be eaten but delivered to a different orifice. While diagnosing enemas for his patients daily , he looks at sex as the killer of men( besides procreation). Matthew Broderick is a sans visitor with indigestion because of his wife s insistence to be there for the cure , which she had experienced before . Bridget Fonda plays the supportive wife. Broderick is great as the forever sexually aroused man . John Cusack plays a man they meet on the train to Wellville whose interests include getting rich in the breakfast food industry, Michael Lerner is the contriving schemer Cusack is looking for he has been burdened with his aunts money. All takes place in the 1800s.and the practices then were laughable now .All in all , one of my favorite comedies of all time....

This is a fantastic cult classic film from the 90’s, that features an ensemble cast of comedy and screen legends like Anthony Hopkins, Dana Carvey, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda, Matthew Broderick, Kathy Bates, and More!

I was drawn to order this movie, Wellville, because I went to Myrtle Beach a couple months ago with my grown children and we ate in a seafood restaurant. My son was eating oysters, and he said to his two sisters something like the wife character in Wellville, telling her sick husband while they were eating a meal, that the liquid in the oyster shell is pee. When the server heard my son say that, she told us that she was actually in that movie at around age 10. She was in the scene where they were in church singing and Kellogg's adopted son was expelling gas. It was a quick scene and she told us that she laughed in that scene. So that is why I ordered it in the first place, because our server was in the movie. Funny thing is, although she was grown, I could tell by the features of the little girl, that it was her.