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Cold Comfort FarmEngland in the 1930s and 20-year-old Flora Poste (Beckinsale), recently orphaned and left with only £100 a year to live on, gamely goes to stay with her distant relatives at Cold Comfort Farm. Everyone on the ramshackle farm is utterly bonkers, oversexed - cousin Seth Starkadder (Sewell) - or saw something nasty in the woodshed as a child - stern Ada Doom (Burrell). Nevertheless, determined to make the best of it, resourceful Flora goes about restoring the farm to its former glory. Schlesinger plays it very safe with this lukewarm adaptation of Stella Gibbons's wry and very funny novel, presumably with a US audience in mind. He and Bradbury (who wrote the screenplay) manage to lose the flavour of the novel completely, instead diluting it and confusing the audience by giving them yet another British costume drama instead of the broad comedy intended by Gibbons. Horribly miscast, too.
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