The Whole Wide World

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

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Vincent D'Onofrio	Robert E. Howard
Renée Zellweger	Novalyne
Ann Wedgeworth	Mrs. Howard
Harve Presnell	Dr. Howard
Benjamin Mouton	Clyde Smith
Helen Cates	Enid
Chris Shearer	Truett

Technical Credits

Michael Scott Myers

Dan Ireland	Director,Producer
Luis Colina	Editor
Carl-Jan Colpaert	Producer
Marshall Crosby	Asst. Director
Vincent D'Onofrio	Producer
John Frick	Production Designer
Harry Gregson-Williams	Score Composer
Donald Kushner	Producer
Peter Locke	Producer
Gail McMullen	Costumes/Costume Designer
Benjamin Mouton	Co-producer
Michael Scott Myers	Co-producer,Screenwriter
Kevin Reidy	Producer
Claudio Rocha	Cinematographer
Ken Segal	Sound/Sound Designer
Laurel Smith	Casting
Robert Strauss	Co-producer
Jonathan A. Winfrey	Asst. Director
Terri L. Wright	Set Decoration/Design
Hans Zimmer	Score Composer