Peter and the Farm

The farm is hardly thriving, but it yields a bumper crop of despair.

As character studies go, it has a peculiar pull as a reflective one-man show.

Peter and the Farm works harder than most films to get at the truth of what has happened to its anti-hero.

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.

Peter and the Farm is all about the coexistence of beautiful environs and grim realities.

A wooly meditation on mortality, a movie about a man who sees his farm as an extension of his body and a reflection of his soul.

This isn't a quick sentence or two lines about why organic is better, but a harrowing yet somewhat uplifting portrait of a man who manages to find a way to survive one day at a time.

Peter and the Farm is immensely rewarding as a fascinating personification of all of the emotions that mental illness renders you incapable of personifying.

Garrulous and cranky, roughened and wizened, farmer Peter Dunning wears a snowy Santa Claus beard and bears not only physical resemblance to Robin Williams, but also exhibits the actor-comedian's self-effacing humor...

Peter and the Farm almost misleads with its title, for this man and his land are one and the same.