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Perfect Movie and unperfect DVD version
As many reviewers here, I happen to watch this movie through the TV without any high expectation. However, the movie proves itself to be such an excellent masterpiece that I immediately decide to buy a copy into my wonderful movie collection. The story, the sence, the actors/actress, the director, everything about the moive is made flawlessly.

The only problem I have and strongly wish the distributor to fix is that the DVD version lost many very touching and romantic sences that impress me so much on TV.. I hate whoever did this to a wonderful movie. I searched every store in my local area to find out the VHS or other DVD version of this movie. But unfortunately get nothing. I do wish the distributor can give out a new version of this movie without any edition. Please keep those beautiful sences!!!

Incredible but true!
It's thrilling that The Whole Wide World is coming out on DVD at long last! It's an experience you'll never forget! Renee Zellweger has never been spunkier or cuter or had more character. You'll fall in love with Vincent D'Onofrio and care deeply about the life of Robert E. Howard and of Novalyne Price. Thank you, Dan Ireland, for such a moving and meaningful movie about the creator of Conan the Barbarian and the wonderful young teacher he fell in love with. After seeing the movie, I bought the book One Who Walked Alone and have desperately sought all I can find about this movie. And yes, that kiss is the most amazing and breathtaking ever! I LOVE The Whole Wide World!

Bitter-sweet love story
Author Robert E Howard--creator of the Conan character--remains a mysterious and problematic literary figure, and the film "The Whole Wide World" attempts to shed some light on the true character of Howard. Novalyne Price Ellis was courted by Howard over a period of years in the 1930s, and the film is based on her book, "One Who Walks Alone." Howard, the son of a local doctor, was already a published writer when he met Novalyne. Unfortunately, given the attitudes of the time, Howard's writing was considered less-than-respectable. Howard lives in more-or-less self-imposed exile at home with his parents, and there he produces stories at a startling rate. Renee Zellweger plays the gentle Novalyne Price--a young teacher who befriends Howard. While everyone else in town finds Howard more than a bit peculiar, Novalyne recognizes that Howard is a talented and deeply sensitive man. Vincent D'Onofrio as Howard gives the impression of someone who isn't entirely comfortable with his own body or his own strength, and I couldn't help but think that the Conan character was Howard's alter ego.

The film begins with Howard's first meeting with Novalyne in a small Texas town in the 1930s, and the story concentrates on their relationship--although a few references are made to Howard's fictional characters and his friendship with H.P. Lovecraft. This bitter-sweet story does not seek to provide answers to the many mysteries about Howard's life but delivers an account by someone who knew and loved "the greatest pulp fiction writer." I really wanted to know more about Howard's career, and his relationship with his mother, but the film does not delve into those aspects of Howard's life. As a fan of the Conan character, I was attracted to the film, and I found the film worthwhile--displacedhuman.

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