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  1. Positive: 15 out of 16
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  1. Around town, Stephen Fry ("Peter's Friends"), as a fluty artiste, dogs Flora with his devotion and declares, "I'm engorgedly in love with you!" That's how I feel about this gem.
  2. John Schlesinger's rollicking version of Stella Gibbons's novel is acted with the highest of spirits by Kate Beckinsale, Joanna Lumley, Eileen Atkins, Ian McKellen, Freddie Jones, and many others.
  3. Thanks to Schlesinger's exacting direction and Malcolm Bradbury's witty, restrained script, these characters are kept more amusing than horribly pitiable.
  4. Cold Comfort Farm may be hysterically funny to regular readers of Hardy, Lawrence, Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters, but it won't ring many bells for the rest of us.

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  1. [Anonymous]
    10
    Uncontrollably funny that hurts the ribcage more and more with each subsequent viewing!
  2. The characters and costumes are great. I was plenty amused and entertained despite the possibility of not picking up every connection to Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. Expand

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