Cold Comfort Farm

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Summary: cold comfort farm
Review: i absolutley love this movie. i didn't know anything about it when i saw it. it is sooooooo funny!

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Summary: Delightfully Funny
Review: Cold Comfort Farm is the story of Flora Poste, whose parents die when she is just 20 and she is left with only 100 pounds a year not enough to keep her in 'stockings and fans.' Flora ignores the advice of her friend Mrs Smiling (the brilliant Joanna Lumley) and goes to live with her relatives at Cold Comfort Farm. They turn out to be an uncivilised bunch and Flora sets out to tidy up at the Farm. The delightful Kate Beckinsale is fantastic as Flora Poste and really steals the show and the rest of the cast is also very good. Will keep you laughing and amused again and again. I highly reccommend it!

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Summary: Just the best ever
Review: If I had to select a list of top 10, this would be in the top five of all time...totally delicious cast of characters. I have watched it numerous times and see something new each time. Its such an adventure, full of love, humor and twists. Can't say I would want to take these characters home...can't wait to get it on DVD.

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Summary: Hilarious
Review: This sleeper is nothing short of hilarious. The heroine solves the psychological dilemmas of all her relatives in humorous yet entirely sensible ways. Particularly for mental health professionals or anyone who's had therapy, this movie is great.

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Summary: Now THIS is Kate Beckinsale's best film to date!!
Review: When I saw "Cold Comfort Farm" a long time ago on TV, maybe Cinemax, I found out that this was a very well-made film right from the get-go. This is one of Kate Beckinsale's earlier films before she went to "Pearl Harbor" with Ben Affleck. And I only have one thing to say about her and this movie...MARVELOUS! "Cold Comfort Farm" was sheer brilliance! The other actors, such as Ian McKellen and Rufus Sewell, gave exceptional performances as well. But to me, this is really Kate Beckinsale's movie and Kate stands out above the crowd as Flora, a high-society woman who is being sent to a farm to live with a few relatives. While living on the farm, Flora changes the lives of everyone around her. Kate Beckinsale is really sweet in this movie and that is what I expected from her from this or any other film that she makes. But "Cold Comfort Farm" is one of Kate's better films that she made. It is so delightful, so entertaining, so hilarious that you'll just want to watch it again and again and again. And also, I will add it to my video/DVD collection just as soon as I go out and buy it. And well, what can I say? I love Kate Beckinsale!!!

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Summary: deliciously bad
Review: i am amazed at how seriously people seem to be taking this movie. this is not great literature and it's not going to win any awards. what it is is a funny little bit of camp with some great catchphrases.
the first time i saw this movie i thought "my god that was stupid and pointless. and what the hell was in the woodshed?" i thought of it only as a means to see rufus sewell smoulder at the camera. but the more i thought about it, the more i wanted to see it again. my friend and i still quote the movie fairly often and i've even put it on my wish list. this movie is like a cult classic; not necessarily good but definately memorable.
to sum up: yes, it's a good movie if you don't expect too much.

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Summary: Delightful!
Review: A wonderful movie! This is, in many ways, not only a gentle spoof but also a comedy of manners. The cast and acting is absolutely superb, although to the American ear the accents can be hard to place. The characters are delightfully eccentric, and the fallen down cursed farm of Cold Comfort is not only aptly named but also aptly photographed. Flora Poste is a strong, humorous heroine who never lets the initial hostility of the farm's residents turn her from her appointed role - to manage!!! And manage she does, delightfully and with wonderful results. If you like your movies with an offbeat sense of humor and a wonderful send up of Gothic, this is the movie for you.

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Summary: I enjoyed this movie immensely
Review: Not everyone would like this movie--I recommended it to my aunt, who likes many of the books and movies I like (classics like Jane Eyre and Rebecca, Room With a View), and she hated it! (She thought it was crude--and upon watching it again, I can see why, although that wasn't my reaction to it.) But I found it entertaining and refreshing and uplifting. It's an odd movie--I've never seen any other like it--quirky. If you like non-mainstream movies, period pieces, foreign films--the unusual--you might like it, as I did. The heroine turned out to be especially appealing--even inspiring--more and more so throughout the movie, rather unexpectedly so. The mood of the movie goes in unexpected directions, too, and that's the surprise of it. (I'd like to say more about that, but don't want to spoil it for you!)

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Summary: a sheer delight!
Review: Cold Comfort Farm is a sheer delight! It's based on the book by Stella Gibbons, written as a down-and-dirty farce in the 1930s. This version is instead a light-hearted fairytale. It's terribly funny and the characters are farcical but not too over the top.

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Summary: Easier to follow than the previous version.
Review: This is the one-part version of this funny story of an odd family, and it's got a much better flow and is less confusing than the three-part BBC version from 1968. But that one is fun to watch, too. This one is a good, solid production that features Stephen Fry and Joanna Lumley in marvelous performances. The plot in this one is clearer and there's no filler, as there is in the other version. I liked them both.