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.
Chevy Chase
as Andy Farmer
Madolyn Smith Osborne
as Elizabeth Farmer
Kevin O'Morrison
as Sheriff Ledbetter
Joseph Maher
as Michael Sinclair
Jack Gilpin
as Bud Culbertson
Caris Corfman
as Betsy Culbertson
William Severs
as Newspaper Editor
Mike Starr
as Crocker
Glenn Plummer
as Mickey
William Duell
as Old Character
Helen Lloyd Breed
as Old Operator
Kit Le Fever
as Young Operator (as Kit Le Fevre)