- Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda, Matthew Broderick, John Cusack, Dana Carvey
- Directors: Alan Parker
- Writers: Alan Parker, T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Producers: Alan Parker, Armyan Bernstein, Lisa Moran, Marc Abraham, Robert F. Colesberry
- Format: Colour, Full Screen, HiFi Sound, PAL
- Language English
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Classification: 18
- Studio: Eiv
- VHS Release Date: 30 Oct 1995
- Run Time: 115 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004CQHI
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 6,312 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
This wrong-headed adaptation of the very funny (and scatological) novel by T. Coraghessan Boyle was written and directed by Alan Parker, who doesn't seem to have much of a clue. It's not a botch, just a movie that hammers its efforts at humour too hard. The focus is split between three storylines: the life of cereal tycoon John Kellogg (Anthony Hopkins with buck teeth), who has created a health spa for the wealthy that focuses on regular cleansing of the digestive tract (as well as applications of electricity); the troubles of an unhappy young couple (Matthew Broderick and Bridget Fonda), who come to the spa hoping to cure their marital ills (Broderick gets the worst of the deal); and the efforts of a young hustler (John Cusack), who is trying to break into the breakfast-cereal business but gets taken by an even bigger hustler (Michael Lerner). There are subplots about Kellogg's children but they add little. For all the excrement and enema jokes, the joys of this movie are distinctly scattered. --Marshall Fine
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This movie is, for me, one of the most wonderful entertainment I've ever had. Anthony Hopkins makes here an extraordinary performance. It has also a part of documentary as you can see how worked the old machinery used in the early 20th century wellness sanatoriums. The directing is brilliant and accurate. The music matches totally with what appears on the screen. The settings are beautiful and the coordination of all the extras, high numbered in this movie, is absolutely perfect, knowing how hard it is to achieve it. Bravo to Alan Parker and to all the cast and team. I love this movie and I watch it very often. No, no, no: no one paid me to write this review.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
brilliant film - straightfoward storyline: cornflakes are there to help your bowels but Kellogg thinks sex is bad. enough people disagree to make life so much more entertaining. plenty of slapstick. all very British really... not very American - makes it all the funnier. Oh, its also about health, wealth, happiness, class, America and Europe... but mostly about bowels and genitals (sounds better with the buck teeth). Hopkins should've had an oscar.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This film will make you cringe and laugh in equal proportions. It is a saucy postcard. It is good fun. Put it on when you need some light relief from the woes of the world.
The undercurrent is suppressed Edwardian sex, under the guise of concern about bowel motions.
Just as with 'This is Spinal Tap' my husband and I will always want to see this film again, when we feel the need to have a healthy chuckle.
The undercurrent is suppressed Edwardian sex, under the guise of concern about bowel motions.
Just as with 'This is Spinal Tap' my husband and I will always want to see this film again, when we feel the need to have a healthy chuckle.
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Corn Flakes History
This film would unquestionably keep you amused thorougout without a dull moment. A DVD for keeps.
Published on 28 Jun 2009 by Homie Smart
Kellogg but not the breakfast sort
Alan Parker on good form directing a glimpse of life in early 20th century mid west America in a health spa sanitorium with a difference. Read more
Published on 3 Mar 2009 by Stephen Parsons
what's not to like!
I have to admit, parts of the plot just didn't tie together, but overall the film is funny.However, it is also disturbingly strange. Read more
Published on 16 April 2000
reasonable
john cusack played a quite a high rate character but he does not save this film from being a blissteringly bad film poorly played.
Published on 28 Mar 2000
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