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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404905573
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 140490557X
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: July 29, 2003
Running Time: 106 minutes
Sales Rank: 23681
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: December 20, 1996
Editorial Review:
Description:
In Texas in the 1930s, young school teacher Novalyne Price meets a handsome, eccentric and interesting young man named Robert Howard. He's a successful writer of the pulp stories of 'Conan the Barbarian'; she's an aspiring author. A friendship develops into a sort of courtship. Based on a memoir by Novalyne Price. Stars Academy Award® nominee Vincent D’Onofrio and Renée Zellweger (Chicago).
Amazon.com:
Director Dan Ireland shows a talent for authenticity with this heartbreaking love story based on Novalyne Price's 1988 account of her prickly romance with 1930s pulp-fiction writer Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan the Barbarian. She was a schoolteacher in a small Texas town; he was the odd-ball writer who lived at home and created comic-book characters that were sexier and more violent than was considered decent by the locals. Renée Zellweger's performance is a gem of sweet unconventionality matched by Vincent D'Onofrio's powerful show of eccentricity and increasing mental illness. Though smart and feisty, this leaves us wishing the filmmakers had dug deeper into Howard's unusual relationship with his manipulative mother. --Rochelle O'Gorman
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A stunning look into one of pulp fiction's greats
Getting back into reading Robert E. Howard's pulp stories, and being impressed again with his visceral, if a little overblown, energy permeating through every page, I decided to learn more about the man. I knew he lived in a small town with his folks, and really did't get out much, but had very little idea as to his personality.
Now, it goes without saying this movie is a mix of fact and fiction, even thouh it is based on a biographical work of the woman second closest to him before ... Read More
Rating: - Renee's First Great Role.
A fine little movie from an interesting book about a too little known author, Robert Howard, creator of Conan the barbarian, and the sword and sorcery theme. The humor, romance, and tragedy are very well done, and Renee Zellweger and Vincent D'Onofrio are near-perfectly cast. Those interested should check Ellis's book "One Who Walked Alone" for more subtleties lost from the movie.
Rating: - Best Movie, Best Kiss in any movie, ever
This is the best most heart wrenching movie with the best kiss in any movie I have ever seen. How it did not get the academy award or at least a nod is beyond me. Vincent D'Onofrio shoud have been awarded the oscar and he was over-looked and this movie was over-looked. Anyone who has not seen it, does not know what they are missing.
If ever there was a love story, this is it.
Rating: - In Defense of Robert E. Howard...
I have not read Novalyne Price's book, on which this movie is based--but if the movie is any indication, I would say that her point in writing the book was not so much to detail a "love story" as to give insight--insofar as she could provide it--into the personality, the writer that was Robert E. Howard. In some respects, it seems like the relationship between Price and Howard is actually more a friendship than actual love affair--a device by which Price was able to show, at least on a certain level, ... Read More
Rating:  - Renee is a gem!
The Whole Wide World is a sad and lovely film starring Vincent D'Onofrio and Renee Zellweger. D'Onofrio always tends to overact and in this movie he does quite desperately. Zellweger on the other hand, is a quiet, serene, and regal actress, she holds this indie love story from drowning. Good film, give it a try sometime.
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