Funny Farm

Funny Farm

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

1988•1h 41m•6.2/10

Comedy

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.2/10(285)

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.

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Production

Warner Bros. Pictures

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

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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

Helen Lloyd Breed

Helen Lloyd Breed

Old Operator

Kit Le Fever

Young Operator (as Kit Le Fevre)

Dakin Matthews

Dakin Matthews

Marion Corey Jr.

William Newman

William Newman

Gus Lotterhand

Alice Drummond

Alice Drummond

Mrs. Ethel Dinges

Kevin Conway

Kevin Conway

Crum Petree (uncredited)

Bill Fagerbakke

Bill Fagerbakke

Lon Criterion

Nicholas Wyman

Nicholas Wyman

Dirk Criterion

Brad Sullivan

Brad Sullivan

Brock

Nesbitt Blaisdell

Nesbitt Blaisdell

Hank

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