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  • 2016
  • Unrated
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 2016
  • Unrated
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 31 m

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-won agri...

Directed By: Tony Stone

  • 2016
  • Unrated
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 2016
  • Unrated
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 31 m

Peter and the Farm

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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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-won agri...

Directed By: Tony Stone

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91
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.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
90
Nov 1, 2016
Transfixing in its workplace detail and haunting in its harsh commentary on a solitary existence.
By David Rooney FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 17, 2016
Peter and the Farm is ultimately a portrait of whatever the opposite of “getting back to nature” is: the cycle of the land as a circle of hell.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
80
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.
By Nigel M Smith FULL REVIEW
75
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.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
75
Nov 2, 2016
This is one tortured soul, and a rare case in which a farmer’s struggles seem to be entirely of his own making.
By Mike D'Angelo FULL REVIEW
58
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.
By Tony Hinds FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Cinema Conservancy, Heathen Films
Release Date Nov 4, 2016
Duration 1 h 31 m
Rating Unrated
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Awards

Philadelphia Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Quebec City International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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