The Whole Wide World – (1996) A low-key biopic of pulp-fiction writer Robert E. Howard (Vincent D’Onofrio) and his relationship with schoolteacher Novalyne Price (Renée Zellweger), whose book One Who Walked Alone was the basis for this film. Howard, the author of Conan the Barbarian and Red Sonja, dated Price in Cross Plains, Texas, during the 1930s. Pert but conventional, initially attracted to Bob in hopes of gaining insight into how she might become a successful writer, Novalyne was repulsed by the sexual fantasies of his stories and his macho attitudes. Nonetheless, recognizing his tender, thoughtful qualities lying beneath the crassness and bravado, she fell in love with the boisterous teller of larger-than-life yarns; but though he offered her Texas sunsets and harvest moons, she wanted him to wash off his war paint and leave his ailing mother to become her own. Unwilling to compromise on his devotion to writing, he told her she knew nothing about what it meant to be a writer.

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