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