The Whole Wide World [Blu-ray]

Director: Dan Ireland Dan Ireland

Overview

A touching and unusual love story, The Whole Wide World was based on a memoir by Novalyne Price Ellis, in which she recalled her brief romance with Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian and one of the finest and most prolific pulp writers of his day. In 1933, Novalyne Price (Renee Zellweger) is a pretty but shy Texas schoolteacher who would like to be a writer some day. A friend offers to introduce her to Howard (Vincent D'Onofrio), who writes broad, bold yarns about superhuman heroes and damsels in distress and has little patience for writers of more pretentious fiction. Novalyne likes Howard and he seems to like her, but she finds him a hard man to deal with. He lives in the world of his stories, and he devotes as much time as possible to his bedridden mother, which leaves him little time to pursue a romance. But when Howard discovers that another man has been courting Novalyne, he's heartbroken -- even if they didn't have a conventional romance, he felt there was a special emotional bond between them, and he hates to see it thrown away. Renee Zellweger and Vincent D'Onofrio both deliver fine performances and are a believable (if unconventional) romantic couple; D'Onofrio also co-produced.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/18/2018
UPC:	0810162036461
Original Release:	1996
Rating:	PG
Source:	Multicom Ent. Group
Language:	English
Time:	1:47:00
Sales rank:	29,551

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Vincent D'Onofrio	Robert E. Howard,Mrs. Smith
Renee Zellweger	Novalyne Price
Ann Wedgeworth	Mrs. Howard
Harve Presnell	Dr. Howard
Benjamin Mouton	Clyde Smith
Helen Cates	Enid
Chris Shearer	Truett
Michael Corbett	Booth Adams
Marion Eaton	Woman on Bus
Leslie Berger	Ethel
Sandy Walper	Mammy
Dell Aldrich	Mrs. Hemphill
Libby Villari	Etna Reed Price
Antonia Bogdanovich	Teacher
Stephen Marshall	Director
Harry Gregson-Williams	Composer
Hans Zimmer	Composer

Technical Credits

Michael Scott Myers

Tara C. Hall

Dan Ireland	Director,Producer
Gregory Cascante	Executive Producer
Carl-Jan Colpaert	Producer
Vincent D'Onofrio	Producer
Donald Kushner	Executive Producer,Producer
Peter Locke	Executive Producer,Producer
Kevin Reidy	Producer
Laurel Smith	Casting
Michael Scott Myers	Screenwriter
Ken Segal	Sound/Sound Designer
Tara C. Hall	Screenwriter