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Released
1988 · FILM

Funny Farm

A weary sportswriter moves to a sleepy country town hoping its peace will finally let him finish his novel, only to find the locals’ relentless mishaps turning every day into chaos. He must outwit the absurd disasters to reclaim the quiet he craves.

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

Directed by
George Roy Hill
Written by
Jay Cronley, Jeffrey Boam
Runtime
101 min
Comedy

Synopsis

Andy Farmer, a sportswriter, relocates to the countryside with his wife, schoolteacher Elizabeth, in hopes of finding the quiet environment necessary to write a novel. However, the small, quirky town offers anything but seclusion, as the couple encounters a series of disasters at nearly every turn.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Alan HeimShot by Miroslav OndricekScored by Elmer BernsteinDesigned by Henry Bumstead

Box Office

1988 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$25.5M

Budget$19.0M
Worldwide gross$25.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $5.7M — 22% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $8.1M — 32% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,557 theaters

Also known as

  • Aventuras y desventuras de un yuppie en el campoes
  • L'allegra fattoriait

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