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Release year: 2004
When big-city speculators cheat him out of his Virginia farm, old time gentleman farmer Nat Banks leaves his family and makes a new home in a cave on the creek, inspiring a community-wide rebellion as he eventually fights his way back home. Nat won’t go down without a fight!
CRAZY LIKE A FOX is the story of a man who can’t take “You’re evicted” for an answer. The pride of possession from so many generations on the same soil simply makes it impossible for him to move. Rather than a rental house in town, he moves into a cave by the creek that runs through the back of his former property instead.
He spends the summer there in a kind of Robinson Crusoe splendor in the wilds of Virginia, until the cold rains of November make the folly of his situation overwhelming. But when new owners leave Greenwood empty to spend the winter in Palm Springs, Nat and his family just move back in, to reclaim their family home until the spring thaw brings about a final confrontation between the dubious forces of progress and the old guard of Virginia.
CRAZY LIKE A FOX stars Emmy Award nominee and Royal Shakespeare Company veteran Roger Rees and two-time Academy Award nominee Mary McDonnell as Nat’s wife Amy. It was written and directed by Richard Squires, an actor, director and playwright with La Mama Amsterdam, the Players Theatre of New England, and Brecht West theatres.
The film was shot over the course of 33 days in Virginia’s famously beautiful horse country.
Official site
When big-city speculators cheat him out of his Virginia farm, old time gentleman farmer Nat Banks leaves his family and makes a new home in a cave on the creek, inspiring a community-wide rebellion as he eventually fights his way back home. Nat won’t go down without a fight!
CRAZY LIKE A FOX is the story of a man who can’t take “You’re evicted” for an answer. The pride of possession from so many generations on the same soil simply makes it impossible for him to move. Rather than a rental house in town, he moves into a cave by the creek that runs through the back of his former property instead.
He spends the summer there in a kind of Robinson Crusoe splendor in the wilds of Virginia, until the cold rains of November make the folly of his situation overwhelming. But when new owners leave Greenwood empty to spend the winter in Palm Springs, Nat and his family just move back in, to reclaim their family home until the spring thaw brings about a final confrontation between the dubious forces of progress and the old guard of Virginia.
CRAZY LIKE A FOX stars Emmy Award nominee and Royal Shakespeare Company veteran Roger Rees and two-time Academy Award nominee Mary McDonnell as Nat’s wife Amy. It was written and directed by Richard Squires, an actor, director and playwright with La Mama Amsterdam, the Players Theatre of New England, and Brecht West theatres.
The film was shot over the course of 33 days in Virginia’s famously beautiful horse country.
Official site
