Peter and the Farm(2016)

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1h 31m
- Biography
- Documentary

Release Date: Nov 4, 2016 | Limited

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A documentary on Peter Dunning, the proprietor of Mile Hill Farm in Vermont who has isolated himself away from his family and often suggests to the filmmakers to make his own suicide a narrative device.

Releases

Original Release | Nov 4, 2016

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Box Office Results

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$3,844
Total US & Canada:
$18,123
Total Worldwide:
$18,123

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Director & Top Cast

Tony Stone
Director

Jake Perlin

Technical Specifications

Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1

Other Details

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English

Summaries

Storyline

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 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. At once a postcard from paradise and a cautionary tale for our times, Peter and The Farm sifts through the potential energy of a human life, that which is used and that which is squandered. — Official site