Cold Comfort Farm with Kate Beckinsale: DVD Cover
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Cold Comfort Farm Director: John Schlesinger Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Sheila Burrell, Eileen Atkins, Ian McKellen

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  • DVD Release Date: 07/01/2003
  • Original Release: 1995
  • Rating: Rated PG
  • Sales Rank: 3,523

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Side #1 --
1. Main Titles [3:32]
2. Flora's Ambition [4:41]
3. A Post for Miss Poste [4:39]
4. The Starkadders [6:54]
5. Cold Comfort Morning [5:38]
6. Elfine & Cousin Judith [3:13]
7. Family Planning [5:18]
8. Afternoon Tea [6:14]
9. The Quivering Brethren [8:46]
10. Elfine & Master Richard [4:38]
11. Aunt Ada's Attacks [2:15]
12. Something Nasty [1:26]
13. The Education of Elfine [6:00]
14. The Hawk-Monitors' Party [7:32]
15. Aunt Ada's Counting [7:16]
16. The Smell of a Movie Star [9:42]
17. The Wedding Day [7:35]
18. A Handsome, Sensible Old Lady [2:58]
19. Forever [3:07]
20. End Titles [2:48]

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Editorial Reviews

Stella Gibbons' popular novel was published in 1932, and it has been adapted twice for British television, first as a miniseries in 1971, then by director John Schlesinger in 1995. That version proved so popular that it was released to theaters in the U.S. The heroine of Gibbons' story, Flora Poste (Kate Beckinsale), is an aspiring young writer with two needs: material for her first novel, and a cheap place to live and work. A wealthy friend encourages her to take advantage of her country cousins and impose upon them for lodgings. Flora finds Cold Comfort Farm to be a ramshackle affair populated by eccentrics including the imperious Ada Doom (Sheila Burrell), her daughter Judith (Eileen Atkins), Judith's rough but handsome son Seth (Rufus Sewell), and Amos (Ian McKellen), an amateur preacher whose sermonizing seems to release some kind of demons within him. Undaunted by this menagerie, Flora gets to work organizing the household, and she comes to realize that the material for her book is right in front of her. Tom Wiener, All Movie Guide

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I love British comedy!!!!by Anonymous

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July 06, 2009: This is such a pleasant surprise! It is now one of my favorite movies. Great story, the characters are hilarious, as the plot unfolds there are always surprises to the very end.

Very Good Film Adaptation of Cold Comfort Farm!by Anonymous

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July 22, 2006: This is the review for the movie adaptation of the book Cold Comfort Farm. It is a very good movie about a woman from the city named Flora Poste who after losing her parents trys to find relatives to take her in and the only ones who respond with an invitation are her wacky relatives in the country at Cold Comfort Farm which includes a domineering woman who hasn't come out of her room in years all because she says she saw something nasty in the woodshed! This is a weird but very good movie and the cast is great, but I especially liked Kate Beckinsale, Rufus Sewell and the actors who played Elfine, Ada Doom, and Judith. By the way: Just be aware while watching this movie that if sometimes you don't understand what the people at Cold Comfort Farm are sayng that it is intentional because sometimes the character of Flora doesn't understand what they are saying and just pretends that she does! 4 1/2 stars!


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