Best described as “Dickens meets the Beverly Hillbillies”, director John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy, Far From the Madding Crowd) seems to take special delight in this mixture of elements from recent movie glosses on Jane Austen with a Monty-Python-like attitude toward literary history. A classic English comedy, bristling with wit and hilarity and crammed with wonderful eccentrics, Cold Comfort Farm boasts a galaxy of stars including Joanna Lumley, Ian McKellen, Rufus Sewell, Miriam Margolyes and newcomer Kate Beckinsale. Based on the best-selling novel by Stella Gibbons.

Voted most popular film Seattle Film Festival 1995.