The Road to Wellville (VHS, 1997, Closed Captioned)

i bought this movie after hunting everywhere for it...it was not available anywhere. I had read the book and just couldnt wait to get my hands on it. I wanted also from a historical stand point as i am an avid collector of Battle Creek Sanitarium memorobilia and ephemera. I hoped to get a clearer view of the practices and happenings at the San....boy did I ever.....The truly Vctorian views of John Harvey Kellogg (Original inventor of Kelloggs Corn Flakes, the electric blanket and peanut butter) are interwoven with a sound though sometimes extreme program for the modern day health food movement.
The story mostly surrounds the upper crust couple the Lightbody's new found search for health. Eleanor lightbody having suffered the miscarriage of a child and Will Lightbody a recovering addict of opiates and alcohol, go to the san for a cure. What ensues is more than a cure as illicit romances abound for Will and his constant aroused state and Eleanor finds her way smack dab in the middle of a feminist movement of sorts completely adverse to Kelloggs teachings.
There are some conmen trying to steal the recipe for the corn flakes and they manage to get a good chunk out of Will Lightbody on one of his non prescribed outings away from the sanitarium and a German sex therapist for Eleanor...I will say little more rather then ruin the movie.
I must say i enjoyed the book so much and I guess I hoped for a play by play in the movie. The departure in the end is a dissapointment after reading the book...I was just watching thing "What the hell is going on!" i could barely recognize the story at all for a time. Also the book covered a very long portion of time, months at least where the movie just didnt portray the length sufficiently for me. And the departures from the storyline and also the time line were unfortunant as the story was great JUST the way it was written. For me the adaptation was confusing and dissapointing. However, all in all the movie is entertaining. Dana Carvey is great as J Kelloggs adopted black sheep of a son,