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Release Date:
10 May 1996 (USA)
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She discovered a new branch of her family tree... the one with all the nuts.
Plot:
In England in the early 1930's, 20 year old Flora Poste, recently orphaned and left with only 100 pounds a year...
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Farm
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Wedding Reception
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Orphan
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Birth
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2 wins
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3 nominations
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(3 articles)
12th Annual EU Film Festival Highlights, Week Three: ‘Angel,’ ‘Left Bank,’ ‘Eden,’ ‘Fear Me Not’
(From HollywoodChicago.com. 18 March 2009, 10:00 AM, PDT)
Director John Schlesinger Dies at 77
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(From HollywoodChicago.com. 18 March 2009, 10:00 AM, PDT)
Director John Schlesinger Dies at 77
(From IMDb News. 25 July 2003)
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"There Is No Butter in Hell" but we find "Comfort" in Sussex
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Eileen Atkins | ... | Judith Starkadder |
 | Kate Beckinsale | ... | Flora Poste |
| Sheila Burrell | ... | Ada Doom |
 | Stephen Fry | ... | Mybug |
| Freddie Jones | ... | Adam Lambsbreath |
 | Joanna Lumley | ... | Mrs. Mary Smiling |
 | Ian McKellen | ... | Amos Starkadder |
 | Miriam Margolyes | ... | Mrs. Beetle |
 | Rufus Sewell | ... | Seth Starkadder |
| Ivan Kaye | ... | Reuben Starkadder |
| Jeremy Peters | ... | Urk |
| Maria Miles | ... | Elfine Starkadder |
| Christopher Bowen | ... | Charles Fairford |
| Louise Rea | ... | Meriam Beetle |
| Sophie Revell | ... | Rennet |
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Rated PG for brief sensuality and language.
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95 min
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Iceland:L |
Netherlands:AL |
Australia:G |
Finland:K-8 |
Germany:6 (bw) |
Spain:T |
Sweden:Btl |
UK:PG |
USA:PG |
Singapore:PG |
Australia:PG (cable rating)
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Last film of Frederick Jaeger.
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Amos Starkadder:
I'm going to go all about in a Ford van. Like the apostles of old, I'll go about the land.
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Version of "Cold Comfort Farm" (1968)
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Praise is the only thing I can give this comedic gem of a film! Gibbon's characters come vividly to life in this perfect adaptation of her retro-Austin book. Kate Beckinsale give the best performance of her gifted career as "Robert Poste's Child",Flora who take up an invitation to Cold Comfort Farm with the motive of changing her extended family,the Starkadders, who reside there ("there have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm"),and find out what the "great wrong" was that they had done her father,a wrong that they are most repentant of. By film's end she has accomplished one of these goals.
The cast is sheer perfection.Beckinsale is vivacious,perky,gutsy and completly charming,Sheila Burrell is a riot as family matriarch Ada Doom who keeps a tight leash on her family and hardly leaves her room since she "saw somthing nasty in the woodshed". Sir Ian McKellen is dynamic and utterly hysterical as Cousin Amo Starkadder who preaches fire and brimstone sermons warning all that in hell there is no butter to sooth the burns. Eileen Atkins as Amos wife,cousin Judith and Freddy Jones as their hired hand are also standouts,but with such a perfect cast there are no weak links,so take sit back and take a journey to the far regions of Sussex with Flora Poste and investigate the quirky Starkadder family, with secrets aplenty at Cold Comfort Farm..once there you will want to make many more visits