The Whole Wide World (1996)

Movie Info

Director Dan Ireland shows a talent for authenticity with this heartbreaking love story based on Novalyne Price's 1988 account of her prickly romance ...(read more...)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

Director: Dan Ireland

MPAA: PG

Running Time: 93 min.

Release Date: Dec 18, 1996

Cast: Ann Wedgeworth, Benjamin Mouton, Chris Shearer, Harve Presnell, Helen Cates, Leslie Berger, Libby Villari, Marion Eaton, Michael Corbett, Ren?e Zellweger, Renée Zellweger, Sandy Walper, Vincent D'Onofrio