FUNNY FARM (1988)

 

Directed by: George Roy Hill

Based on the novel by: Jay Cronley

Starring: Chevy Chase, Madolyn Smith, Kevin O'Morrison, Alice Drummond, Mike Starr, Glenn Plummer, Joseph Maher, Bill Fagerbakke, Nicholas Wyman, William Newman, Kevin Conway, Brad Sullivan, William Duell, Jack Gilpin, Caris Corfman

101 minutes

(PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:

When Andy and Elizabeth buy a farm in Vermont, they can't imagine the trouble that awaits them. Andy has quit his job as a sports journalist and is planning to use the peace and quiet of the country to write the Great American Novel. From the moment the movers' truck gets lost with their furniture, though, there's little peace and less quiet. From a maniacal mailman to a dead body buried in the garden, Andy is distracted by the town and its wacky inhabitants. His effort at a novel is mediocre, at best, and he's threatened by Elizabeth's foray into writing when she attempts a children's book. Can the Farmers survive the townsfolk and each other?

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