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Right before our trip to Arizona we had a movie night at the Agadoni home. The movie chooser this time around was Amy, and she chose Funny Farm, starring Chevy Chase. In this movie, the ideal of quitting one's day job and buying a home in the country is destroyed, when Andy Farmer and his wife arrive to their new home with great excitement only to realize that the country comes with a lot of nuisances.

The couple go into town and realize that it's full of weirdos, so they buy a dog, and the dog runs away. That pretty much sets the pace for a while, and with all the mishaps going on around the farm, Andy's wife writes a children's book based on Andy's adventures. When the book sells and Andy finds out about it, he loses it, and soon the couple are ready for a divorce. But divorce includes selling the farm, and selling the farm means "selling" the town and its people, so the couple hire the whole town to be hospitable to potential buyers.

There's a great chemistry between Andy and his wife, and the way they interact with each other feels very genuine. I liked that dynamic a lot, which is why Andy's slip into mild insanity and their pending divorce feels a little bit like overkill. But it did create the opportunity to see their townspeople caroling and frolicking in the snow, which was pretty amusing.

Another funny thing was all of the animal injury humor, which we don't see too often these days. The idea of pouring a hot cup of coffee on a twittering bird or hitting a dog over the head with a frying pan seems pretty harsh, but it probably made us laugh the most because it was so unexpected.

I'm glad we got a chance to see this movie. Like Ric mentioned, we had always seen the DVD in the stores and had heard about it, but neither of us had actually watched it.

Our little movie nights are turning out to be a lot of fun. It's fun to see the variety we can come up with and how excited we all get with figuring out which movies the others haven't seen. So far, we have watched: In the Heat of the Night, In the Name of the Father, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Blues Brothers, Kelly's Heroes, Logan's Run, Funny Farm, and whatever Ric picks tonight. Good times.