In the Woodshed
Cold Comfort Farm
By John Schlesinger & Malcolm Bradbury

6 Feb, 2025
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John Schlesinger and Malcolm Bradbury’s 1995 Cold Comfort Farm is a period-piece movie, a comedy based on the Stella Gibbons’ 1932 novel of the same title. Cold Comfort Farm features many actors now stars, Kate Beckinsale, Joanna Lumley, Ian McKellen, and Rufus Sewell among them. I suspect that many weren’t as well known in 1995 as they are now.
Orphaned, having inherited only enough £ for a meager allowance, Flora Poste decides not to look for job and puts off marrying her eminently suitable suitor, Charles. Instead, she seeks out relatives off whom she can sponge. The least unpromising kin are the Starkadders, who live in Howling, in far-off Sussex. Off to Sussex Flora goes.