Funny Farm

Jun 3, 1988

1h 41m

★ 6.2

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.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

Funny Farm Trailers

Cast

Andy Farmer

Chevy Chase

Elizabeth Farmer

Madolyn Smith Osborne

Sheriff Ledbetter

Kevin O'Morrison

Michael Sinclair

Joseph Maher

Bud Culbertson

Jack Gilpin

Betsy Culbertson

Caris Corfman

Newspaper Editor

William Severs

Crocker

Mike Starr

Mickey

Glenn Plummer

Old Character

William Duell

Old Operator

Helen Lloyd Breed

Young Operator (as Kit Le Fevre)

Kit Le Fever

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