Funny Farm

Funny Farm (1988)

03/06/1988
Comedy
1h 41m

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

Overview

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.

  • George Roy HillDirector
  • Jeffrey BoamScreenplay
  • Status

    Released

  • Original Language

    English

  • Budget

    $19,000,000

  • Revenue

    $25,537,221

Keywords

  • small town
  • based on novel or book
  • slapstick comedy
  • city country contrast
  • vermont

Top Billed Cast

Chevy Chase

Chevy Chase

Andy Farmer

Madolyn Smith Osborne

Madolyn Smith Osborne

Elizabeth Farmer

Kevin O'Morrison

Kevin O'Morrison

Sheriff Ledbetter

Joseph Maher

Joseph Maher

Michael Sinclair

Jack Gilpin

Jack Gilpin

Bud Culbertson

Caris Corfman

Betsy Culbertson

William Severs

Newspaper Editor

Mike Starr

Mike Starr

Crocker

Glenn Plummer

Glenn Plummer

Mickey

William Duell

William Duell

Old Character

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