
“Chevy Chase finds life in the country isn't what it's cracked up to be!”
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.
Release Date: 6/3/1988
Runtime: 101 minutes
Languages: English
Director: George Roy Hill
Budget: $19.0M
Revenue: $25.5M
Companies: Warner Bros. Pictures
Countries: United States of America
Sheriff Ledbetter

Chevy Chase
Andy Farmer

Madolyn Smith Osborne
Elizabeth Farmer

Kevin O'Morrison
Sheriff Ledbetter

Joseph Maher
Michael Sinclair

Jack Gilpin
Bud Culbertson
Caris Corfman
Betsy Culbertson
William Severs
Newspaper Editor

Mike Starr
Crocker

Glenn Plummer
Mickey

William Duell
Old Character
Helen Lloyd Breed
Old Operator
Kit Le Fever
Young Operator (as Kit Le Fevre)
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