Movie
Funny Farm
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1988-06-03
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Genres
- Comedy
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Chevy Chase as Andy Farmer
- Madolyn Smith Osborne as Elizabeth Farmer
- Kevin O'Morrison as Sheriff Ledbetter
- Joseph Maher as Michael Sinclair
- Jack Gilpin as Bud Culbertson
- Caris Corfman as Betsy Culbertson
- William Severs as Newspaper Editor
- Mike Starr as Crocker
- Glenn Plummer as Mickey
- William Duell as Old Character
- Helen Lloyd Breed as Old Operator
- Kit Le Fever as Young Operator
Crew
- George Roy Hill - Director
- Jeffrey Boam - Screenplay
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