Chevy Chase stars as Andy Farmer, a sportswriter who moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth (
Madolyn Smith) 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. The veteran production staff features the likes of composer
Elmer Bernstein, cinematographer Miroslav Ondricek, production designer
Henry Bumstead, and director
George Roy Hill (
The Sting,
The World According to Garp). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide