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Cold Comfort Farm
- 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.
Trailer...
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