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Mood:
- Feel GoodHumorousTouchingOffbeatSentimental
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Plot:
- Couple RelationsFall in LoveParents and ChildrenSocial DifferencesEccentric FamilyFamily LifeFish Out of WaterLove and Romance more...
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Genres:
- ComedyPeriod
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Time/Period:
- 20s20th Century30s
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Place:
- EnglandEuropeLondonCountryside
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Audience:
- Date NightGirls' Night
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Humor:
- Farce
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Style:
- Talky
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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Attitudes:
- Semi SeriousRealistic
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Cold Comfort Farm, 1995
English
UK
Profile of Cold Comfort Farm
The mood of Cold Comfort Farm is feel good, touching, and humorous. The plot centers around an eccentric family, social differences, and a "fish out of water". It features farce. Cold Comfort Farm is a comedy and period movie. Stylistically, it is talky. In approach, it is realistic. Cold Comfort Farm takes place, at least partly, in the countryside. The setting is London. It happens in the 1920s and in the 1930s. Cold Comfort Farm is based on a book. It is especially suggested for a girls' night and a date night.
Summary of 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, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary (Joanna Lumley) ], 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.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK |
| Release date: | 11 June 1995 |
| Runtime: | 95 min |
Cast and Crew
as Flora Poste
as Mrs. Mary Smiling
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Critics Reviews
The New Yorker
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- by: Terrence Rafferty
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- by: Staff(Not Credited)
