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Cold Comfort Farm

Country: UK, Language: English, 95 mins

  • Director: John Schlesinger
  • Writer: Malcolm Bradbury; Stella Gibbons
  • Producer: Richard Broke; Alison Gilby

CGiii Comment

And where exactly is the comedy?

Well made, well acted - terribly written, totally omitting the charm and ambition of the book.

The result is a film that rapidly runs out of steam and is a turgid bore by the end.


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The(ir) Blurb...

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.

Cast & Characters

Eileen Atkins as Judith Starkadder;
Kate Beckinsale as Flora Poste;
Sheila Burrell as Ada Doom;
Stephen Fry as Mybug;
Freddie Jones as Adam Lambsbreath;
Joanna Lumley as Mrs. Mary Smiling;
Ian McKellen as Amos Starkadder;
Miriam Margolyes as Mrs. Beetle;
Rufus Sewell as Seth Starkadder;
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