The Road to Wellville
“A comedy of the heart and other organs.”
An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business and compete against John Kellogg's corn flakes.
Genres
Comedy, Romance, Drama
Studio
Beacon Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Road to Wellville performed
Budget
$25.0M
Worldwide Gross
$26.0M
Gross Profit
$1.0M
Return
1.0× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$4M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
Anthony Hopkins
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
Eleanor Lightbody
Bridget Fonda
Eleanor Lightbody
William Lightbody
Matthew Broderick
William Lightbody
Charles Ossining
John Cusack
Charles Ossining
George Kellogg
Dana Carvey
George Kellogg
Goodloe Bender
Michael Lerner
Goodloe Bender
Dr. Lionel Badger
Colm Meaney
Dr. Lionel Badger
Endymion Hart-Jones
John Neville
Endymion Hart-Jones
Ida Muntz
Lara Flynn Boyle
Ida Muntz
Nurse Irene Graves
Traci Lind
Nurse Irene Graves
Virginia Cranehill
Camryn Manheim
Virginia Cranehill
Poultney Dab
Roy Brocksmith
Poultney Dab
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