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The Whole Wide World (1996)

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Directed by
Dan Ireland

Written by
Novalyne Price Ellis, Michael Scott Myers

Cast
Vincent D'Onofrio, Renée Zellweger, Ann Wedgeworth, Harve Presnell, Benjamin Mouton [more]


Release Date
• USA: Dec 20, 1996
DVD Release Date
• R1: Jul 29, 2003

Budget $1,300,000

MPAA Rating
Rated PG for a substantial amount of mild language and mature thematic elements.

Running Time
1 hour, 51 minutes

Country USA

Studio Kushner-Locke Productions

More info on IMDb.com

Other Titles
• The Whole Wide World



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 Synopses for The Whole Wide World (1996)
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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

  
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2.An ambitious West Texas schoolmarm (Renee Zellweger) with literary inclinations is drawn romantically to an idiosyncratic writer (Vincent D'Onofrio) of pulp horror tales, despite his virtually Oedipal attachment to his convalescent mother and his other emotional troubles. A tender, offbeat romantic story based on the memoir "One Who Walked Alone," written by Novalyne Price of her brief affair with "Conan the Barbarian" creator Robert E. Howard.   
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3.  A true story about the true love of the greatest pulp fiction writer of all time.

Driven by the electrifying performances of VIncent D'Onofrio (TV's "Law & Order: Criminal Intent") and Renee Zellweger (Chicago, Bridget Jones's Diary), The Whole Wide World is the touching true story of the star-crossed love between writer Robert Howard and schoolteacher Novalyne Price.

The creator of Conan the Barbarian and Red Sonja, Howard was a small-town writer with an insatiable appetite for larger-than-life heroism and fantasy. Shunned by the prudish locals, he was befriended by a feisty young teacher who offered him an unforgettable chance at love.   		  
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