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May 10, 1996 · Cold Comfort Farm: Directed by John Schlesinger. With Eileen Atkins, Kate Beckinsale, Sheila Burrell, Stephen Fry. A recently orphaned young woman goes to live with eccentric relatives in Sussex, where she sets about improving their gloomy lives.
May 24, 1996 · British fiction is packed with stories of forlorn orphans being shipped off to live with stone-hearted relatives. “Cold Comfort Farm” satirizes those stories. This time, the dreadful relatives find their lives in an uproar; they get more than they expect and better than they deserve.
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. [1] The novel was awarded the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize in 1933. [2]
Cold Comfort Farm, comic novel by Stella Gibbons, published in 1932, a successful parody of regional and rural fiction by such early 20th-century English writers as Mary Webb and D.H. Lawrence. A popular and clever work, Cold Comfort Farm was awarded the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize in 1933.
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.
Cold Comfort Farm. 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...
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Kate Beckinsale stars as Flora, a London society girl who moves to the country to live on a farm with her eccentric relatives in this heartwarming comedy full of charm and clever satire.
An adaption of Stella Gibbons's famous novel about a posh girl who, after the death of her estranged parents, moves in with some rustic uncouth poor relatives at...
Cast of Miniseries. Alastair SimAmos Starkadder. Sarah BadelFlora Poste. Fay ComptonAunt Ada Doom (Starkadder) Rosalie CrutchleyJudith Starkadder. Brian BlessedReuben Starkadder. Peter EganSeth Starkadder. Timothy CarltonRichard Hawk-Monitor. Take Plex everywhere.
Recently orphaned, Flora ignores the sage advice of Mrs. Smiley (Joanna Lumley) and moves to the country to live on a decrepit farm with her eccentric...
