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The Whole Wide World

1996·1h 51m·PG
DramaBiographyRomance
IMDb Rating
★ 7.0/10
4,402 votes

In 1933 Texas, a schoolteacher and aspiring writer meets a pulp fiction writer. A relationship soon develops between the two, but it is doomed by his slavish devotion to his ailing mother and insistence on his freedom.

The Whole Wide World is a 1996 drama biography movie directed by Dan Ireland, starring Renée Zellweger, Vincent D'Onofrio, Harve Presnell. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.0/10 from 4,402 votes and runs 1h 51m.

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Director
Dan Ireland
Stars
Renée Zellweger
Vincent D'Onofrio
Harve Presnell
Ann Wedgeworth
Details
1996-12-20
111 min
Movie
PG
★ United States
★ English
Keywords
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