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Cold Comfort Farm (TV)

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Original title

Cold Comfort Farm

Year

1995

Running time

105 min.

Country

United Kingdom

Director

John Schlesinger

Screenwriter

Malcolm Bradbury. Novel: Stella Gibbons

Cast

Music

Robert Lockhart

Cinematography

Chris Seager

Producer

BBC Film, BBC, Thames Television

Genre

Comedy | Satire. TV Movie

Synopsis

In England in the early 1930s, twenty-year-old Flora Poste (Kate Beckinsale), recently orphaned, and left with only one hundred pounds sterling a year, goes to stay with distant relatives on Cold Comfort Farm. Everyone on the gloomy farm is completely around the twist, but Flora tries to sort everything out.

Awards: 1995: BAFTA TV Awards: Best Make-up & Hair

1996: Satellite Awards: 2 Nominations including Best Motion Picture Comedy/Musical

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Critics' reviews

"The fun that Schlesinger and his first-rate ensemble must have had while working on this production is infectious, for there isn't one dull -- or quiet -- moment in the film."

Emanuel Levy: Variety
"Dour, eccentric and very funny"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"'Cold Comfort Farm' may be hysterically funny to regular readers of Hardy, Lawrence, Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters, but it won't ring many bells for the rest of us."

Edward Guthmann: SFGATE
"The filmmakers have done a beautiful job of preserving the satirical snap of Gibbons's original. But the real joy of Cold Comfort Farm is watching these actors play so freely and exuberantly"

Hal Hinson: The Washington Post

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Cold Comfort Farm (TV)

1995

John Schlesinger

6.5

(350)