Funny Farm
by George Hill, George Roy Hill
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Actor: Alice Drummond, Brad Sullivan, Chevy Chase, Dakin Matthews, Mike StarrDirector: George Hill, George Roy Hill
Brand: Warner Brothers
Other Contributor: Elmer Bernstein
Producer: Bruce Bodner
Producer: Patrick Kelley
Producer: Robert L. Crawford
Writer: Jeffrey Boam
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
Published: 1999-05-01
DVD Release Date: 1999-05-18
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Model: 11809
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- Life in the country isn't what it's cracked up to be when city slicker Chevy Chase moves there.Year: 1988Running Time: 103 min. System Requirements: Starring: Chevy Chase, Madolyn Smith, Kevin O"Morrison, Joseph Maher, Jack Gilpin, Caris Corfman Director: George Roy Hill Rated: PG Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Age: 085391180920 UPC: 085391180920 Manufacturer No:&nb
Movie Reviews of Funny Farm
Movie Review: DVD 3 -- Funny Farm 10
Summary: 5 Stars
I am really frustrated this is not in widescreen format taking full advantage of the gorgeous cinematography. All the characters are perfectly cast. You don't have to be a Chevy Chase fan to love him as Andy; it is the best acting he has ever done. Madolyn Smith is simply wonderful as the only character centered in reality while all the quirky and charming characters in this movie, her husband included, live in another world altogether. After Andy repeatedly waxes rhapsodic about settlers 100 years ago to romanticize one screw-up after the other, she finally smacks him in the forehead with her palm claiming it was a mosquito. When she has a children's book published, she plays her husband lovingly like a finely-tuned instrument, stroking his dented ego, telling him the main character (a squirrel named Andy)is a tribute to him and that he was her inspiration, not admitting little Andy gets hit by a truck at the end of the first book, until after he warms to the idea that she, not he, actually wrote a book and lets her have his typewriter and desk. Of course he unravels anyway, leading to the hi-lite -- the entire town turning into a Norman Rockwell scene to help the Farmers sell their home... no, not to help the Farmers, but for the $50 promised to each townsperson who participates ("cue the deer"). What makes this so good is that it's not over the top; it's simply charming. When I want to relax and escape to a warm, funny, and really beautiful place (I want that house, property, and the two ducks!) I replay this movie and never tire of it.
Summary of Funny Farm
FUNNY FARM - DVD MovieGeorge Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) directed this 1988 comedy that gives star Chevy Chase one of his better-quality vehicles. Chase plays a New York sportswriter who turns to the country for a simpler, happier way of living. He discovers, of course, that things don't work out that way. Hill's usual touch with comic timing, tone, and dialogue give Chase a rare career opportunity to be part of something a little classier than most of his other movies; but Funny Farm nevertheless has its share of so-what gags. Still, the film's overall tone is winning and laid-back, and it makes for nice escapist fare. --Tom Keogh
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