Kate Beckinsale
Flora Poste
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May 10, 1996 · Flora Poste, an orphaned young woman, goes to live with eccentric relatives in Sussex and tries to improve their gloomy lives. The movie is based on a parody of Gothic romance fiction and features a cast of British actors, including Kate Beckinsale, Ian McKellen and Stephen Fry.
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- Comedy, Romance
- John Schlesinger
- 1996-05-10
Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb.
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.
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.
May 24, 1996 · 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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- 95 min
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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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- Comedy
- TV-PG
