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Movie Description
When a young society woman from London becomes suddenly orphaned she's forced to take up residence with a group of her unsophisticated, oddball relatives at their farm. Despite protests from the bedridden, iron-willed matriarch of the farm, the aspiring lass tries to achieve some semblance of order and class in the house. From the novel by Stella Gibbons.
Synopsis
When the strong-minded Flora Poste loses her parents and her financial security, she moves in with her eccentric and wild relatives at the broken-down Cold Comfort Farm. There, Flora transforms the decrepit building into a vibrant, elegantly decorated home and the untamed family into a group of sophisticated, successful adults.
Film Notes
A British made-for-television film.
Shown at the 1995 Hamptons International Film Festival in New York.
Released theatrically in New York City and Los Angeles May 10, 1996; released theatrically in Boston and Philadelphia May 24, 1996.
The first collaboration between the BBC and Thames Television.
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Surround - English
Dolby Surround - Spanish
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Industry Reviews
"...A deliciously eccentric, fabulously acted comedy of manners....[With a] playful mood and wicked wit..."
Variety - Emanuel Levy (06/26/1995)
"...Its characters are conceived and played with gratifying wit....Mr. Schlesinger draws lively performances out of his cast..."
New York Times - Janet Maslin (05/10/1996)
"...[The film is] dour, eccentric and very funny, and depends on the British gift for treating madness as good common sense..."
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (05/24/1996)
Quotations
"I've only a hundred pounds a year and I can't play bridge." -- Flora Poste (KATE BECKINSALE), to her friend, Mrs. Smiling (JOANNA LUMLEY).
"Nature's all very well in her place, but she mustn't be allowed to make things untidy." -- Flora Poste (KATE BECKINSALE), explaining the benefits of contraceptives to an ignorant farm woman who keeps getting pregnant.
"There'll be no butter in hell!" -- Amos Starkadder (IAN McKELLEN)
"He's so obnoxious. I haven't the heart to tell him that's why I won't let him kiss me. He thinks I'm inhibited." -- Flora Poste (KATE BECKINSALE), about Mybug (STEPHEN FRY).
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