Cold Comfort Farm (1995)

Directed by John Schlesinger · Comedy, Drama, Romance

Starring Eileen Atkins, Kate Beckinsale, Sheila Burrell, Stephen Fry, Freddie Jones, Joanna Lumley, Ian McKellen, Miriam Margolyes, Rufus Sewell, Ivan Kaye, Jeremy Peters, Maria Miles, Christopher Bowen, Sophie Revell, Rupert Penry-Jones, Angela Thorne, Basil Hoskins, William Osborne, Richard Bebb, William Scott-Masson, Robert James, Pat Keen, Trevor Baxter, Harry Ditson, Tim Myers, Frederick Jaeger

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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 settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.

My review · Reviewed 07/14/2019

The funny thing about this film is that the audience probably has an expectation about where the film is going to end up. After all, we've seen the premise throughout literature - orphan goes to live with broken and sometimes wicked family. That much is true here - what happens after that is engaging and quirky.