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Cold Comfort Farm

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Synopsis

Starring Kate Beckinsale (Pearl Harbor) as Flora Poste, a London society girl, and Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous) as Flora's friend and mentor, this heartwarming comedy is full of charm and clever satire. Recently orphaned, Flora ignores the sage advice of Mrs. Smiley and moves to the country to live on a decrepit farm with her eccentric relatives. Fancying herself a writer, Flora encounters perfect material for her novel in the humorously odd collection of rural characters. In her own inimitable way, Flora insists on creating order out of their chaos, and in the process, she fills their lives with light and laughter. Also starring Rufus Sewell (A Knight’s Tale), Ian McKellen (Lord of the Rings), Stephen Fry (Peter's Friends) and Eileen Atkins.

Review

From gay director Schlesinger comes this viciously funny tale of British eccentricity. The story, which begins as a familiarly dry Masterpiece Theatre-style British upper-class drama, soon explodes into broad satire. Set in the 1930s, the film follows perky Flora (Kate Beckinsale) and her adventures with her decidedly Middle Ages rural cousins, the doom-laden Starkadders. Adding some queer elements are Ian McKellen as the curmudgeon father, Stephen Fry as a love-lorn twit and Joanna Lumley as Flora's comicly supercilious aunt.