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Cold Comfort Farm

  • TV Movie
  • 1995
  • AL
  • 1h 45m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
7.7K
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Kate Beckinsale, Rufus Sewell, Ian McKellen, Eileen Atkins, and Ivan Kaye in Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
ComedyRomance

A recently orphaned young woman goes to live with eccentric relatives in Sussex, where she sets about improving their gloomy lives.A recently orphaned young woman goes to live with eccentric relatives in Sussex, where she sets about improving their gloomy lives.A recently orphaned young woman goes to live with eccentric relatives in Sussex, where she sets about improving their gloomy lives.

  • Director
    • John Schlesinger
  • Writers
    • Malcolm Bradbury
    • Stella Gibbons
  • Stars
    • Eileen Atkins
    • Kate Beckinsale
    • Sheila Burrell
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    7.2/10
    7.7K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    4,304
    51
    • Director
      • John Schlesinger
    • Writers
      • Malcolm Bradbury
      • Stella Gibbons
    • Stars
      • Eileen Atkins
      • Kate Beckinsale
      • Sheila Burrell
    • 84User reviews
    • 29Critic reviews
    • 82Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Won 1 BAFTA Award
      • 2 wins & 4 nominations total

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    Eileen Atkins
    Eileen Atkins
    • Judith Starkadder
    Kate Beckinsale
    Kate Beckinsale
    • Flora Poste
    Sheila Burrell
    Sheila Burrell
    • Ada Doom
    Stephen Fry
    Stephen Fry
    • Mybug
    Freddie Jones
    Freddie Jones
    • Adam Lambsbreath
    Joanna Lumley
    Joanna Lumley
    • Mrs. Mary Smiling
    Ian McKellen
    Ian McKellen
    • Amos Starkadder
    Miriam Margolyes
    Miriam Margolyes
    • Mrs. Beetle
    Rufus Sewell
    Rufus Sewell
    • Seth Starkadder
    Ivan Kaye
    Ivan Kaye
    • Reuben Starkadder
    Jeremy Peters
    • Urk
    Maria Miles
    • Elfine Starkadder
    Christopher Bowen
    Christopher Bowen
    • Charles Fairford
    Louise Rea
    • Meriam Beetle
    Sophie Revell
    • Rennet
    Rupert Penry-Jones
    Rupert Penry-Jones
    • Dick Hawk-Monitor
    Angela Thorne
    Angela Thorne
    • Mrs. Hawk-Monitor
    Tim Myers
    • Mr. Hawk-Monitor
    • Director
      • John Schlesinger
    • Writers
      • Malcolm Bradbury
      • Stella Gibbons
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    • Trivia
      Director John Schlesinger had to pay for the blow-up from 16mm to 35mm, because neither the BBC, nor Thames Television, who owned the overseas rights, thought the movie would work in the theater, and therefore would not waste their money on the print. It was the fifth highest-earning British movie released in U.S. theaters that year.
    • Goofs
      The candlestick on breakfast table during the first breakfast scene changes places depending upon the shot.
    • Quotes

      Amos Starkadder: Ye miserable, crawlin' worms. Are ye here again then? Have ye come like Nimshi, son of Rehoboam, secretly out of your doomed houses, to hear what's comin' to ye? Have ye come, old and young, sick and well, matrons and virgins, if there be any virgins amongst you, which is not likely, the world being in the wicked state that it is. Have ye come to hear me tell you of the great, crimson, licking flames of hell fire? Aye! You've come, dozens of ye. Like rats to the granary, like field mice when it's harvest home. And what good will it do ye? You're all damned! Damned! Do you ever stop to think what that word means? No, you don't. It means endless, horrifying torment! It means your poor, sinful bodies stretched out on red-hot gridirons, in the nethermost, fiery pit of hell and those demons mocking ye while they waves cooling jellies in front of ye. You know what it's like when you burn your hand, taking a cake out of the oven, or lighting one of them godless cigarettes? And it stings with a fearful pain, aye? And you run to clap a bit of butter on it to take the pain away, aye? Well, I'll tell ye, there'll be no butter in hell!

    • Crazy credits
      The copyright at the end of this movie is listed as "MCMXV", which translates to 1915. The movie was copyrighted in 1995, so the numerals should read "MCMXCV".
    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Twister/Captives/Boys/Dead Man/Cold Comfort Farm (1996)
    • Soundtracks
      I'm More Than Satisfied
      Composed by Fats Waller (as Waller) / Raymond Klages (as Klayes)

      Published by EMI Music/Redwood Music

      Arrangement by Robert Lockhart

    User reviews84

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    8/10

    extremely funny

    Absolutely terrific movie is an interesting take on the popular theme of people who come into a mess of unhappiness and create joy. Often these movies rely on a central character who is magical, or has great charm and a love for life, but Flora achieves her ends through pure English practicality, and it is very amusing to see someone approaching misery as a mess to be cleaned up. Flora, excellently portrayed by Beckinsale, is pretentious and rather smug but also well-meaning and likable. In a way she seems to be the personification of British imperialism, although that's probably a bit of a stretch.

    Much of the fun of the movie is the ridiculous level of misery and squalor represented by Cold Comfort Farm, which is a parody of the sort of grim worlds one can find from writers like Dickens. Eileen Atkins does a great job, but then they all do. The only real weak point in the movie is Mybug, who seems completely unnecessary. Perhaps he was a significant character who served some purpose in the novel, but here he is just this annoying peripheral character, and had he been cut entirely out of the movie it would have been all the better for it (although I generally like Stephen Fry). In spite of that, an excellent film.
    • cherold
    • May 29, 2005
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • May 10, 1996 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Nya vindar över Cold Comfort Farm
    • Filming locations
      • Kent and East Sussex Railway, Tenterden, Kent, England, UK(trains and station)
    • Production companies
      • BBC Film
      • British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
      • Thames International
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $5,682,429
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $66,427
      • May 12, 1996
    • Gross worldwide
      • $5,682,429
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    Tech specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 45 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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