A recently orphaned young woman goes to live with eccentric relatives in Sussex, where she sets about improving their gloomy lives.A recently orphaned young woman goes to live with eccentric relatives in Sussex, where she sets about improving their gloomy lives.A recently orphaned young woman goes to live with eccentric relatives in Sussex, where she sets about improving their gloomy lives.
- Won 1 BAFTA Award
- 2 wins & 4 nominations total
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- TriviaDirector John Schlesinger had to pay for the blow-up from 16mm to 35mm, because neither the BBC, nor Thames Television, who owned the overseas rights, thought the movie would work in the theater, and therefore would not waste their money on the print. It was the fifth highest-earning British movie released in U.S. theaters that year.
- GoofsThe candlestick on breakfast table during the first breakfast scene changes places depending upon the shot.
- Quotes
Amos Starkadder: Ye miserable, crawlin' worms. Are ye here again then? Have ye come like Nimshi, son of Rehoboam, secretly out of your doomed houses, to hear what's comin' to ye? Have ye come, old and young, sick and well, matrons and virgins, if there be any virgins amongst you, which is not likely, the world being in the wicked state that it is. Have ye come to hear me tell you of the great, crimson, licking flames of hell fire? Aye! You've come, dozens of ye. Like rats to the granary, like field mice when it's harvest home. And what good will it do ye? You're all damned! Damned! Do you ever stop to think what that word means? No, you don't. It means endless, horrifying torment! It means your poor, sinful bodies stretched out on red-hot gridirons, in the nethermost, fiery pit of hell and those demons mocking ye while they waves cooling jellies in front of ye. You know what it's like when you burn your hand, taking a cake out of the oven, or lighting one of them godless cigarettes? And it stings with a fearful pain, aye? And you run to clap a bit of butter on it to take the pain away, aye? Well, I'll tell ye, there'll be no butter in hell!
- Crazy creditsThe copyright at the end of this movie is listed as "MCMXV", which translates to 1915. The movie was copyrighted in 1995, so the numerals should read "MCMXCV".
- ConnectionsFeatured in Siskel & Ebert: Twister/Captives/Boys/Dead Man/Cold Comfort Farm (1996)
- SoundtracksI'm More Than Satisfied
Composed by Fats Waller (as Waller) / Raymond Klages (as Klayes)
Published by EMI Music/Redwood Music
Arrangement by Robert Lockhart
Much of the fun of the movie is the ridiculous level of misery and squalor represented by Cold Comfort Farm, which is a parody of the sort of grim worlds one can find from writers like Dickens. Eileen Atkins does a great job, but then they all do. The only real weak point in the movie is Mybug, who seems completely unnecessary. Perhaps he was a significant character who served some purpose in the novel, but here he is just this annoying peripheral character, and had he been cut entirely out of the movie it would have been all the better for it (although I generally like Stephen Fry). In spite of that, an excellent film.
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- Country of origin
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- Also known as
- Nya vindar över Cold Comfort Farm
- Filming locations
- Kent and East Sussex Railway, Tenterden, Kent, England, UK(trains and station)
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $5,682,429
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $66,427
- May 12, 1996
- Gross worldwide
- $5,682,429
- Runtime1 hour 45 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1