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    Cold Comfort Farm (1995)

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    The smashing Kate Beckinsale stars as Flora Poste, the sophisticated orphan who leaves a cushy berth with her rich London friend (Joanna Lumley) to live with uncouth relatives on a farm that would give D H Lawrence a shock in terms of rustic sin and animal urges.

    The father (Ian McKellan) preaches hellfire, while the son Seth (Rufus Sewell) screws what’s handy and dreams of being a film star.

    The mother (a superb performance from Eileen Atkins) relinquishes control of the dirty brood only to the matriarch Ada Doom (Sheila Burrell), who talks incessantly about seeing “something nasty in the woodshed”.

    The fun comes in watching Flora do a Martha Stewart makeover on the farm and its resident freaks, giving director John Schlesinger a chance to tweak the lower, middle and upper classes with equal glee.

    Judith Starkadder
    Eileen Atkins
    Flora Poste
    Kate Beckinsale
    Ada Doom
    Sheila Burrell
    Mybug
    Stephen Fry
    Adam Lambsbreath
    Freddie Jones
    Mrs Mary Smiling
    Joanna Lumley
    Amos Starkadder
    Ian McKellen
    Mrs Beetle
    Miriam Margolyes
    Seth Starkadder
    Rufus Sewell
    Reuben Starkadder
    Ivan Kaye
    Urk
    Jeremy Peters
    Elfine Starkadder
    Maria Miles
    Charles Fairford
    Christopher Bowen
    Meriam Beetle
    Louise Rea
    Rennet
    Sophie Revell

    Director
    John Schlesinger

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