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The Road to Wellville (film), the Glossary

The Road to Wellville is a 1994 American comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by Alan Parker, an adaptation of T. Coraghessan Boyle's novel of the same name, which tells the story of the doctor and clean-living advocate John Harvey Kellogg and his methods employed at the Battle Creek Sanitarium at the beginning of the 20th century.^[1]

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Battle Creek in fiction
Beacon Pictures films
Films directed by Alan Parker
Films produced by Armyan Bernstein
Films with screenplays by Alan Parker

Alan Parker

Sir Alan William Parker (14 February 1944 – 31 July 2020) was an English film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Anthony Hopkins

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins (born 31 December 1937) is a Welsh actor.

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Armyan Bernstein

Barry "Armyan" Bernstein (born August 12, 1947) is an American film/television producer, director and screenwriter.

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Battle Creek Sanitarium

The Battle Creek Sanitarium was a world-renowned health resort in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States.

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Battle Creek, Michigan

Battle Creek is a city in northwestern Calhoun County, Michigan, United States, at the confluence of the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek rivers.

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Beacon Pictures

Beacon Pictures (aka Beacon Communications, LLC) is an American film and television production and international sales company founded in 1990 by Armyan Bernstein, who is also its chairman.

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Bridget Fonda

Bridget Jane Fonda (born January 27, 1964) is an American former actress.

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Bright Lights Film Journal

Bright Lights Film Journal is an online popular-academic film magazine, based in Oakland, California, United States.

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British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is a non-governmental organisation founded by the British film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content, etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.

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Camryn Manheim

Debra Frances "Camryn" Manheim (born March 8, 1961) is an American actress who first came to attention with her off-Broadway one-woman show, "Wake Up, I'm Fat", in 1994.

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Clitoris

In amniotes, the clitoris (or;: clitorises or clitorides) is a female sex organ.

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Cola

Cola is a carbonated soft drink flavored with vanilla, cinnamon, citrus oils, and other flavorings.

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Colm Meaney

Colm J. Meaney (Colm Ó Maonaigh; born 30 May 1953) is an Irish actor best known for playing Miles O'Brien in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994) and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999).

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Colon cleansing

Colon cleansing, also known as colon therapy, colon hydrotherapy, a colonic, or colonic irrigation, encompasses a number of alternative medical therapies claimed to remove toxins from the colon and intestinal tract by removing accumulations of feces.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., commonly known as Columbia Pictures or simply Columbia, is an American film production and distribution company that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation.

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Comedy drama

Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau dramedy, is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama.

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Dana Carvey

Dana Thomas Carvey (born June 2, 1955) is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and producer.

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Electrocution

Electrocution is death or severe injury caused by electric shock from electric current passing through the body.

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Electrotherapy

Electrotherapy is the use of electrical energy as a medical treatment.

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Film adaptation

A film adaptation is the transfer of a work or story, in whole or in part, to a feature film.

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Gene Siskel

Eugene Kal Siskel (January 26, 1946 – February 20, 1999) was an American film critic and journalist for the Chicago Tribune.

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Gerry Hambling

Gerry Hambling (14 June 1926 – 5 February 2013) was a British film editor whose work is credited on 49 films; he had also worked as a sound editor and a television editor.

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Jacob Reynolds

Jacob Reynolds (born May 13, 1983) is an American actor.

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Janet Maslin

Janet R. Maslin (born August 12, 1949) is an American journalist, best known as a film and literary critic for The New York Times.

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John Cusack

John Paul Cusack (born June 28, 1966)(28 June 1996).

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John Harvey Kellogg

John Harvey Kellogg (February 26, 1852 – December 14, 1943) was an American businessman, inventor, physician, and advocate of the Progressive Movement.

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John Neville (actor)

John Reginald Neville, CM OBE (2 May 1925 – 19 November 2011) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned more than sixty years, he was renown for his roles on both stage and screen in genres ranging from classical theatre, to fantasy and science fiction.

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Knoxville News Sentinel

The Knoxville News Sentinel, also known as Knox News, is a daily newspaper in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, owned by the Gannett Company.

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Lara Flynn Boyle

Lara Flynn Boyle (born March 24, 1970) is an American actress.

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Masturbation

Masturbation is a form of autoeroticism in which a person sexually stimulates their own genitals for sexual arousal or other sexual pleasure, usually to the point of orgasm.

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Matthew Broderick

Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962) is an American actor.

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Michael Lerner (actor)

Michael Charles Lerner (June 22, 1941 – April 8, 2023) was an American actor.

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Mohonk Mountain House

The Mohonk Mountain House, also known as Lake Mohonk Mountain House, is an American resort hotel located south of the Catskill Mountains on the crest of the Shawangunk Ridge.

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Myriad Pictures

Myriad Pictures is an independent entertainment company in Santa Monica, California founded in 1999 and specializing in production, financing and worldwide distribution of feature films and television programming.

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New Paltz, New York

New Paltz is an incorporated U.S. town in Ulster County, New York.

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Norbert Weisser

Norbert Weisser (born 1946) is a German actor who has been based in the United States since the mid-1960s.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Peter Biziou

Peter Biziou BSC (born 8 August 1944 in Wales) is a British cinematographer.

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Peter Travers

Peter Joseph Travers (born) is an American film critic, journalist, and television presenter.

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Rachel Portman

Rachel Mary Berkeley Portman (born 11 December 1960), FilmReference.com is a British composer who made history in 1996 for being the first female composer to win an Academy Award for the Best Original Score, for Emma. She was also nominated twice, for the soundtracks of The Cider House Rules (1999) and Chocolat (2000).

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Robert F. Colesberry

Robert F. Colesberry Jr. (March 7, 1946 – February 9, 2004) was an American film and television producer, best known as a co-creator of the television series The Wire (2002–2008) for HBO, executive producer of the miniseries The Corner (2000), and a producer for Martin Scorsese's After Hours (1985), Alan Parker's Mississippi Burning (1988), and Billy Crystal's 61* (2001).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Wellville_(film)

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The Road to Wellville (film), the Glossary

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See also

Battle Creek in fiction

Beacon Pictures films

Films directed by Alan Parker

Films produced by Armyan Bernstein

Films with screenplays by Alan Parker

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