Cold Comfort Farm

Cold Comfort Farm Information

Cold Comfort Farm is a 1995 British comedy film directed by John Schlesinger and produced by the BBC and Thames Television, an adaptation of Stella Gibbons' 1932 book of the same name, the film stars Kate Beckinsale, Joanna Lumley, Ian McKellen and Rufus Sewell. Originally broadcast on 1 January 1995 on the BBC, it was Schlesinger's final film shot in his home country of Britain, and was picked up for theatrical release in North America through Gramercy Pictures, where it was a small success.

Plot

Flora Poste (Kate Beckinsale), a young orphan in the 1920s, moves in with her eccentric and backward relatives, the Starkadders. The Starkadders live in a run-down farm off the beaten track in Sussex. Flora decides to rehabilitate and modernise them.

She first removes the head of the family (Ian McKellen), an amateur preacher with his own entourage of timid followers, by encouraging him to go on a preaching tour. This leaves the farm in the far more capable hands of his elder son. She introduces the very lusty and handsome younger son to an American film producer, and so gets rid of him as well. She marries off the poetry-addicted gypsy daughter after coaching her in manners, deportment and fashion. She connects the chronically-depressed mother (Eileen Atkins) with a famed psychiatrist, who takes a great interest in her. The greatest challenge is her domineering Aunt Ada Doom, whom she eventually convinces to go on a tour of Europe.

Cast

Kate Beckinsale as Flora Poste
Joanna Lumley as Mrs. Mary Smiling
Ian McKellen as Amos Starkadder
Rufus Sewell as Seth Starkadder
Eileen Atkins as Judith Starkadder
Sheila Burrell as Ada Doom
Stephen Fry as Mybug
Freddie Jones as Adam Lambsbreath
Miriam Margolyes as Mrs. Beetle
Ivan Kaye as Reuben Starkadder
Jeremy Peters as Urk
Maria Miles as Elfine Starkadder
Christopher Bowen as Charles Fairford
Louise Rea as Meriam Beetle
Sophie Revell as Rennet
Rupert Penry-Jones as Dick Hawk-Monitor
Angela Thorne as Mrs. Hawk-Monitor
Harry Ditson as Earl P. Neck

Reception

Cold Comfort Farm received generally positive reviews; it currently holds an 84% 'fresh' rating on Rotten Tomatoes. During its theatrical release in North America, the film grossed $5,682,429.

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