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Peter and the Farm

Name: Peter and the Farm
Genre: Documentary
Released: November 4, 2016
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 80
Cast: Peter Dunning

2016

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Peter And The Farm

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Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: November 4, 2016 | Not Rated

Starring: Peter Dunning

Summary: Peter Dunning is the proud proprietor of Mile Hill Farm, which sits on 187 acres in Vermont. The land’s 38 harvests have seen the arrivals and departures of three wives and four children, leaving Peter with only animals and memories. The arrival of a film crew causes him to confront his history and his legacy, passing along hard-wonPeter Dunning is the proud proprietor of Mile Hill Farm, which sits on 187 acres in Vermont. The land’s 38 harvests have seen the arrivals and departures of three wives and four children, leaving Peter with only animals and memories. The arrival of a film crew causes him to confront his history and his legacy, passing along hard-won agricultural wisdom even as he doubts the meaning of the work he is fated to perform until death. Haunted by alcoholism and regret, Peter veers between elation and despair, often suggesting to the filmmakers his own suicide as a narrative device. He is a tragedian on a stage it has taken him most of his life to build, and which now threatens to collapse from under him.… Expand

Director: Tony Stone

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 91 min

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60	#60 Best Movie of 2016

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Noel Murray

Sep 8, 2016

Stone and his crew get the audience hooked on the mystery of this charismatic crank, and then take their time before they answer some of the bigger questions. Read full review

David Rooney

Nov 1, 2016

Transfixing in its workplace detail and haunting in its harsh commentary on a solitary existence. Read full review

Stephen Holden

Nov 3, 2016

It is the film’s cosmic dimension that makes it so special. Read full review

Nigel M Smith

Sep 8, 2016

Dunning recounts spellbinding tales that led to the gradual downfall of his expansive Mile Hill Farm, and the destruction of his two marriages. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

Nov 10, 2016

By looking closely, clinically and ultimately compassionately at one eccentric practitioner of a dying way of life...Peter and the Farm nevertheless manages to harvest not just understanding of one peculiar, broken little man, but a broader wisdom about the cycle of seasons that we all must endure on this planet. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Nov 7, 2016

The vast majority of us are so far removed from any common farming past that we idealize it and the people who live that lifestyle. Peter and the Farm is a sober reminder of how hard and callous that life is, and will come as a shock to anybody with romantic dreams of “chucking it all” to live off the land. Read full review

The Film Stage Tony Hinds

Nov 3, 2016

Dunning is a documentarian’s wet dream, as honest and forthcoming as he is eagerly collaborative, which makes for a wildly entertaining, if occasionally self-indulgent experience. Read full review

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