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The Road to Wellville (1994) is an eccentric period comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Alan Parker. Anthony Hopkins plays Dr. John Harvey Kellogg — Battle Creek's self-appointed messiah of health, running his Michigan sanitarium like a personal religion: vegetarian meals, no intimacy, and enough enemas to last a lifetime.
Matthew Broderick and Bridget Fonda arrive as an unhappy young couple hoping for a cure, only to find that the treatment is worse than the illness. Meanwhile John Cusack plays a scheming entrepreneur who figures cornflakes are the future of American breakfast — and wants a piece of it.
Parker turns the health-obsession craze of the 1890s into biting farce. Hopkins, playing Kellogg somewhere between prophet and quack, is thoroughly unhinged in the best way. Stream The Road to Wellville (1994) online on iFILM.
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