The Road to Wellville (film)

The Road to Wellville is a 1994 American comedydrama film adaptation of T. Coraghessan Boyles novel of the same name, which tells the story of the doctor and cleanliving advocate John Harvey Kellogg and his methods employed at the Battle Creek Sanitarium at the beginning of the 20th Century. The film was written and directed by Alan Parker.

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 welltodo 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 doctors estranged adopted son, they attempt to produce Kelloggs Perfo Flakes. ........

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