A comedy of the heart and other organs. Academy
Award winner Anthony Hopkins (1991 Best Actor, Silence of the Lambs) leads
an all-star cast including Bridget Fonda, Matthew Broderick, John Cusack
and Dana Carvey, in this inventive, high-energy comedy filled with hilarious
laughs and bawdy fun. Presiding over the renowed Battle Creek Sanitarium
is the visionary corn flake inventor and health craze huckster, Dr. John
Harvey Kellogg (Hopkins). Seeking to improve their health and marriage
in this spa/hospital/grand hotel are Eleanor (Fonda), Kellogg's spellbound
devotee, and her reluctant but devoted husband, Will (Broderick). What
doesn't kill them will make them stronger as they make their way through
an obstacle course of sexual temptations, mechanical contraptions and dietary
breakthroughs.
Release:
October 28, 1994
Studio:
Columbia
Genre:
Comedy
Rating:
R
Running Time:
118 minutes
Writer:
T. Coraghessan Boyle and Alan Parker
Producer:
Alan Parker, Armyan Bernstein and Robert F. Colesberry
Director:
Alan Parker
Cast:
Matthew Broderick..... William Lightbody Anthony Hopkins..... Dr. John Harvey Kellogg Bridget Fonda..... Eleanor Lightbody John Cusack...... Charles Ossinging Dana Carvey..... George Kellogg Michael Lerner..... Goodloe Bender Colm Meaney..... Dr. Lionel Badger John Neville..... Endymion Hart-Jones Lara Flynn Boyle..... Ida Muntz Traci Lind..... Nurse Irene Graves Camryn Manheim..... Virginia Cranehill Roy Brocksmith..... Poultney Dab Norbert Weisser..... Dr. Spitzvogel
Nomination:
1994 British Society of Cinematographers..... Best Cinematography Award nominee (Peter Biziou)
A comedy of the heart and other organs.
