Kate Beckinsale
Flora Poste
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May 10, 1996 · Flora Poste, a young woman with a hundred pounds a year, goes to live with her eccentric relatives on a gloomy farm in Sussex. She tries to improve their lives and faces their resistance in this adaptation of Stella Gibbons' novel.
- (7.5K)
- Comedy, Romance
- John Schlesinger
- 1996-05-10
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
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. Originally broadcast on 1 January 1995 on the BBC, it was Schlesinger's final film ...
Cold Comfort Farm sends up high-minded classics with a wit and impressive restraint that rivals its inspirations. In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste (Kate Beckinsale ...
- (40)
- John Schlesinger
- TV-PG
- Kate Beckinsale
Synopsis. In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she ...
- (71)
- John Schlesinger
- PG
- 2
A comedy based on Stella Gibbons' novel about a modern orphan who upsets the gloomy Starkadders, a family of eccentric farmers. The film features Kate Beckinsale, Eileen Atkins, Ian McKellen and Stephen Fry in a satire of British fiction and culture.
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A recently orphaned young woman goes to live with eccentric relatives in Sussex, where she sets about improving their gloomy lives. 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.
