
When Andy and Elizabeth buy a farm in Vermont, they can't imagine the trouble that awaits them. Andy has quit his job as a sports journalist and is planning to use the peace and quiet of the country to write the Great American Novel. From the moment the movers' truck gets lost with their furniture, though, there's little peace and less quiet. From a manical mailman to a dead body buried in the garden, Andy is distracted by the town and its wacky inhabitants. His effort at a n... (Full plot summary below)
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When Andy and Elizabeth buy a farm in Vermont, they can't imagine the trouble that awaits them. Andy has quit his job as a sports journalist and is planning to use the peace and quiet of the country to write the Great American Novel. From the moment the movers' truck gets lost with their furniture, though, there's little peace and less quiet. From a manical mailman to a dead body buried in the garden, Andy is distracted by the town and its wacky inhabitants. His effort at a novel is mediocre, at best, and he's threatened by Elizabeth's foray into writing when she attempts a children's book. Can the Farmers survive the townsfolk and each other?
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| Video-Reviewmaster.comSteve CrumSilly, but Chase adds his own brand of humor. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertFunny Farm is kind of a loony, off-center comedy version of Hill's "The World According to Garp," another movie about strange people in bizarre situations. |
| Chicago TribuneJohanna SteinmetzDirector George Roy Hill shows little distinction with this material [from Jay Cronley’s book], but then again, the material here isn’t very distinctive. Some of the setups work better than others, though most are of the sitcom variety. |
| United Press InternationalCathy BurkeChevy Chase does the best comedic acting of his movie career in this off-beat satire of exquisite rural living. |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbyFunny Farm is good-natured even when it's not funny...As a comedy style, it has the impatience of a child who plants radish seeds and then pulls up the first tiny sprouts to see how they're doing. |
| Los Angeles TimesMichael WilmingtonFunny Farm --a weak-fish-out-of-water comedy about a New York City couple who see their rural paradise turned into a rustic hell--is a movie with a doubly deceptive title. This movie isn't about a farm, and it isn't very funny, either. |
| Washington PostHal HinsonThe problem is that the director, George Roy Hill, tries to construct a real universe around Chase and his costar. And for a time he's able to give the comedy some snap. But after the couple settle in their new home and nightmare piles on nightmare, the picture deteriorates into a shtickfest and the sense of reality drags on the proceedings. |
| Common Sense MediaBarbara ShulgasserTired '80s slapstick comedy has cursing, drinking. |
| User ReviewCori A"We decided that moving to the country was the best decision we ever made." - Andy Farmer (Chevy Chase) (December 5, 2010) |
| User ReviewBrian MThis movie is for anyone who longs for moving out of the city and into a small coumuntiy in the country, or for a person who likes to laugh. The basic plot is that a couple leaves NY is seach of the country. Unfortunately, when they get their they realize that is is not all is cracked up to be. |