Cold Comfort Farm (1995) on Netflix
Orphaned with little money, Flora Poste asks her relatives for a home. She accepts Judith Starkadder's invitation to Cold Comfort Farm, which the reclusive Ada Doom rules from her room.
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Plot summary
Flora Poste's parents have died, and her yearly income is too small to keep her. Her friend Mary Smiling tells her she must find work, but Flora, who means to write a novel, writes instead to relatives asking to be taken in. The city relations refuse. She widens the search and accepts a letter from Judith Starkadder, who invites her to stay at Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex, saying she must atone for a wrong the family once did to Flora's father. The dilapidated farm holds an eccentric family: Amos, a preacher of the Quivering Brethren; his sons Reuben and Seth; and Elfine, who spends her time communing with nature. Aunt Ada Doom, a recluse, controls the household from her room, and the Starkadders call Flora only Robert Poste's Child.
Cast
- Jeremy Petersas Urk
- Maria Milesas Elfine Starkadder
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Director John Schlesinger was the only one who thought the film would work in North American cinemas, so he had to put up the money himself to blow up the print from 16mm to 35mm. He took the new format to the Toronto Film Festival, where its success led to a North American release.
- The production filmed at the Kent & East Sussex Railway, which provided the trains for Flora's journey from London, and used Northiam station in East Sussex for the fictional railway station of Beershorn Halt.
- Originally broadcast on the BBC on 1 January 1995, it was Schlesinger's final film shot in his home country of Britain, and was picked up for theatrical release by Gramercy Pictures in North America, where it was a small success.
