Cold Comfort Farm

Name: Cold Comfort Farm
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: May 10, 1996
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 82
Cast: Eileen Atkins, Kate Beckinsale, Sheila Burrell, Stephen Fry

1996

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Gramercy Pictures (I) | Release Date: May 10, 1996 | PG

Starring: Eileen Atkins, Kate Beckinsale, Sheila Burrell, Stephen Fry

Summary: A young woman orphaned in London is forced to take up residence with a group of oddball relatives at their farm.

Director: John Schlesinger

Genre(s): Comedy, Romance

Rating: PG

Runtime: 95 min

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Kevin Thomas

It's been brought to the screen by director John Schlesinger and writer Malcolm Bradbury with such deftness, giving it a life of its own, that it's not necessary for audiences to be familiar with the literature it satirizes. Read full review

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Emanuel Levy

The fun that Schlesinger and his first-rate ensemble must have had while working on this production is infectious, for there isn't one dull -- or quiet -- moment in the film. Read full review

Hal Hinson

The filmmakers have done a beautiful job of preserving the satirical snap of Gibbons's original. But the real joy of Cold Comfort Farm is watching these actors play so freely and exuberantly off each other. Read full review

Desson Thomson

Thanks to Schlesinger's exacting direction and Malcolm Bradbury's witty, restrained script, these characters are kept more amusing than horribly pitiable. Read full review

Roger Ebert

The movie, based on the famous comic novel by Stella Gibbons, is dour, eccentric and very funny, and depends on the British gift for treating madness as good common sense. Read full review

Barbara Shulgasser

In the attempt to rein in a cast playing a great assortment of exaggerated types, Schlesinger (who directed "Midnight Cowboy" and "Marathon Man" ) and Bradbury sometimes lose the tone of the movie. Read full review

Edward Guthmann

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. Read full review

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[Anonymous]

Feb 8, 2008

Uncontrollably funny that hurts the ribcage more and more with each subsequent viewing!

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dfrooah

Aug 30, 2010

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.

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