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Cold Comfort Farm|Eileen Atkins

Cold Comfort Farm

Eileen Atkins and Kate Beckinsale
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Overview

When a young society woman from London becomes suddenly orphaned she's forced to take up residence with a group of her unsophisticated, oddball relatives at their farm. Despite protests from the bedridden, iron-willed matriarch of the farm, the aspiring lass tries to achieve some semblance of order and class in the house. From the novel by Stella Gibbons.

Awards:

Main Cast & Crew:
John Schlesinger - Director
Eileen Atkins
Kate Beckinsale
Sheila Burrell
Stephen Fry
Freddie Jones
Ian McKellen
Ivan Kaye
Joanna Lumley
Rufus Sewell
Trevor Baxter

Details

    DVD Format
  • Format: DVD (Dolby, Dubbed, Widescreen)
  • Run Time: 105
  • Color Format: Color
  • UPC: 025192264924
  • Genre: COMEDIES
  • Rating: PG (MPAA)
  • Release Date: July 2003

Movie Reviews

Synopsis:
When the strong-minded Flora Poste loses her parents and her financial security, she moves in with her eccentric and wild relatives at the broken-down Cold Comfort Farm. There, Flora transforms the decrepit building into a vibrant, elegantly decorated home and the untamed family into a group of sophisticated, successful adults.

Notes:
A British made-for-television film. Shown at the 1995 Hamptons International Film Festival in New York. Released theatrically in New York City and Los Angeles May 10, 1996; released theatrically in Boston and Philadelphia May 24, 1996. The first collaboration between the BBC and Thames Television.

Reviews:
"...All of the book's wit and none of the dull bits..." - Recommended - 12/01/1996 Premiere, p.117


"...A delicious social satire....COLD COMFORT FARM, with a clever script by Malcolm Bradbury, sets a raucous pace for a cast of master thespians..." - 05/30/1996 Rolling Stone, p.57


"...Schlesinger has created a perfect, burnished little world, and the delectable cast has a great time..." -- Rating: A - 05/24/1996 Entertainment Weekly, p.77


"...A deliciously eccentric, fabulously acted comedy of manners....[With a] playful mood and wicked wit..." - 06/26/1995 Variety


"...Its characters are conceived and played with gratifying wit....Mr. Schlesinger draws lively performances out of his cast..." - 05/10/1996 New York Times, p.C3


"...[The film is] dour, eccentric and very funny, and depends on the British gift for treating madness as good common sense..." - 05/24/1996 Chicago Sun-Times, p.32

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