Film

Funny Farm

1988 · 1h 41m · Comedy

Chevy Chase finds life in the country isn't what it's cracked up to be!

IMDb

6.2

Rotten Tomatoes

64%

Metacritic

50

Sportswriter Andy Farmer moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farmers find in the small, eccentric town, where disaster awaits them at every turn.

Chevy Chase

Andy Farmer

Madolyn Smith Osborne

Elizabeth Farmer

Kevin O'Morrison

Sheriff Ledbetter

Joseph Maher

Michael Sinclair

Jack Gilpin

Bud Culbertson

Caris Corfman

Betsy Culbertson

William Severs

Newspaper Editor

Mike Starr

Crocker

Glenn Plummer

Mickey

William Duell

Old Character

Helen Lloyd Breed

Old Operator

Kit Le Fever

Young Operator

Dakin Matthews

Marion Corey Jr.

William Newman

Gus Lotterhand

Alice Drummond

Mrs. Ethel Dinges

Kevin Conway

Crum Petree (uncredited)

• George Roy HillDirector
• Jeffrey BoamScreenplay
• Jay CronleyNovel
• Robert Crawford Jr.Producer
• Patrick KelleyExecutive Producer
• Bruce BodnerExecutive Producer
• Miroslav OndříčekDirector of Photography
• Elmer BernsteinOriginal Music Composer
• Alan HeimEditor
• Marion DoughertyCasting

Funny Farm - Trailer

Release date

June 3, 1988

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

PG

Budget

$19,000,000

Revenue

$25,537,221

Genres

Comedy

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