A couple swap city life for the country, but their picturesque new hometown turns out to be just a little bit different to what they were expecting.A couple swap city life for the country, but their picturesque new hometown turns out to be just a little bit different to what they were expecting.A couple swap city life for the country, but their picturesque new hometown turns out to be just a little bit different to what they were expecting.
Madolyn Smith Osborne
- Elizabeth Farmer
- (as Madolyn Smith)
Kit Le Fever
- Young Operator
- (as Le Fevre)
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Did you know
- TriviaChevy Chase says this is his favorite of his own movies.
- GoofsDuring the meeting with the lawyers about the divorce, Mrs. Farmer mentions that July is seven months away, meaning it is December. Yet, in the next exterior shot we see the grass is green and the leaves are still on the trees.
- Quotes
Sheriff Ledbetter: Remember, Mrs. Farmer. Whenever you buy a house, whatever's in the ground belongs to you - whether it's gold or oil... or Claude Musselman.
- Alternate versionsTo receive a PG certificate the 1989 UK video version was cut by 3 secs by the BBFC to remove one use of 'fuck you' and several uses of 'shit'.
- SoundtracksWiegenlied (Lullaby) Op. 49 No. 4
(uncredited)
Written by Johannes Brahms
Performed by Elizabeth Farmer
Featured review
Better than people give it credit for....
This film has some pretty negative and ho-hum comments. I won't say it's his best, but this is still a great film for fans of Chevy Chase. There are a number of good laughs, even if the comedy isn't nonstop like today's ADHD movie-goers demand. Every so often, someone in my family will say "Cue the deer," and we still have a good chuckle every time. Just one of the all-time classic lines in a classic comedy sequence that is really the lasting mark of this film. The telephone operator scene, and all the dog scenes are just great for laughs, too. Really, this film falls into that "Saturday afternoon on USA" sort of category, like PCU and Used Cars. You wouldn't go rent it perhaps, but if it came on TV some afternoon, it's always worth a watch.
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- cjwynes
- Sep 7, 2001
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Box office
- Budget
- $19,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $25,537,221
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $5,655,439
- Jun 5, 1988
- Gross worldwide
- $25,537,221
- Runtime1 hour 41 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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