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    Peter and the Farm

    Poster of the movie Peter and the Farm
    2016     Documentary    
    USA
    1h 31min

    Peter Dunning is a rugged individualist in the extreme, a hard-drinking loner and former artist who has burned bridges with his wives and children and whose only company, even on harsh winter nights, are the sheep, cows, and pigs he tends on his Vermont farm. Peter is also one of the most complicated, sympathetic documentary subjects to come along in some time, a product of the 1960s counterculture whose poetic idealism has since soured. For all his candor, he slips into drunken self-destructive habits, cursing the splendors of a pastoral landscape that he has spent decades nurturing. Imbued with an aching tenderness, Tony Stone's documentary is both haunting and heartbreaking, a mosaic of its singular subject's transitory memories and reflections -- however funny, tragic, or angry they may be.

    Directed byTony Stone
    CompanyMagnolia PicturesMagnolia PicturesMagnolia Pictures

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    Peter Dunning

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