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Cold Comfort Farm (1996)

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Reviews Counted:30

Fresh:25

Rotten:5

Average Rating:7.4/10

Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins

Genre: Comedies

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: 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... 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. [More]

Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Joanna Lumley, Rufus Sewell, Ian McKellen

Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Joanna Lumley, Rufus Sewell, Ian McKellen, Eileen Atkins, Sheila Burrell, Stephen Fry, Freddie Jones, Miriam Margolyes

Director: John Schlesinger

Director: John Schlesinger

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05/02/09
Robert Levin
Robert Levin
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Sweet, sprightly made-for-British-TV comedy.

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05/30/08
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
N/R

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06/24/06
Time Out
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Schelsinger's masterfully directed eccentric satire is based on Stella Gibbons' 1933 book which spoofs the serious, soul-searching, rural-set stories of writers like D.H. Lawrence and Mary Webb.

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06/02/06
Emanuel Levy
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11/07/05
Cole Smithey
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06/11/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
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04/09/05
Robin Clifford
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Philip Martin
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Kent Turner
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01/15/04
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11/15/03
Rich Cline
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09/05/03
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07/01/03
Walter Chaw
Walter Chaw
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05/14/03
Jeanne Aufmuth
Jeanne Aufmuth
Palo Alto Weekly

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05/09/03
Cory Cheney
Cory Cheney
Urban Tulsa Weekly

Good, but somehow not great version of the classic British novel.

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02/02/03
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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12/10/02
Robert Roten
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08/30/02
Jeffrey Westhoff
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

Skewers the dark romantic novels of rural England and shows how a control freak can find happiness.

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08/27/02
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice
 
 
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