The Road to Wellville is a 1994 comedy-drama film. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by T. Coraghessan Boyle. The plot follows a health spa run by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg which ...

Farce about a turn-of-the-century health spa, where an eccentric doctor (Anthony Hopkins) administers his unusual therapies to a hapless couple (Matthew Broderick, Bridget Fonda). Ossining: John ...

In 1994, writer-director Alan Parker adapted T. Coraghessan Boyle’s novel The Road to Wellville as a film. Loosely based on ...

Summary: Celebration of the life and eccentric times of Dr John Harvey Kellogg and his crusade for biological living, in which the plot fights a losing battle to be heard above the belching and ...

Admirers of Boyle's earlier work will recognize in "Riven Rock," his latest, many of the elements that made "The Road to Wellville" (1993) an entertaining best seller that caught Hollywood's eye. Like ...

Changing our hair, getting divorced, taking spa vacations — they’re not just things we do; they’re “journeys.” The quest for better health is the greatest journey of all.

recounting his failures and pronouncing himself on the road to Wellville, could fail to be struck by the fact that not one of those roads ever led anywhere good. But you see more. This goes beyond ...

“Oh, you won’t be drinking it,” crooned Anthony Hopkins as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg in the 1994 film The Road to Wellville.

had started the Battle Creek Sanitarium (itself the inspiration for the novel and film adaptation The Road to Wellville), a combination medical center and upscale residential spa that grew out of ...

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A story about the ins and outs of one unusual health facility in the early twentieth century, run by the eccentric Dr. John Harvey Kellogg.