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Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm (actually a collection of short stories, of which Christmas was the first) was published in 1940. It is a prequel of sorts, set before Flora's arrival at the farm, and is a parody of a typical family Christmas. Conference at Cold Comfort Farm, a sequel, was published in 1949 to mixed reviews. Adaptations
May 10, 1996 · Flora Poste, an orphaned young woman, moves to a gloomy farm in Sussex and tries to improve the lives of her eccentric relatives. The movie, directed by John Schlesinger and starring Kate Beckinsale, Ian McKellen and Joanna Lumley, is a comedy adaptation of Stella Gibbons' novel.
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- Comedy, Romance
- John Schlesinger
- 1996-05-10
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.
Cold Comfort Farm is a stinging satire and outrageously funny parody of the literature about rural English farm life, especially by Sheila Kaye-Smith, Mary Webb, and to a lesser extent, D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy.
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- Paperback
In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste (Kate Beckinsale), a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of ...
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- John Schlesinger
- TV-PG
- Kate Beckinsale
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.
Cold Comfort Farm Official Trailer #1 - Freddie Jones Movie (1995) HD. Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers. 1.67M subscribers. 30K views 12 years ago. ...more. Subscribe to TRAILERS:...
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