7.6
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Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
Overview
In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.
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Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Christianity: Negative
Viewer Rating
7.6
Overview
In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
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Primary
The film is a social satire that critiques both the romanticization of rural life and dysfunctional traditions, while championing individual agency and pragmatic solutions for personal happiness. Its focus on individual transformation rather than systemic change or explicit political messaging places it in the neutral category.
This British period comedy features traditional casting with a predominantly white ensemble, consistent with its 1930s setting and source material. The narrative's satirical focus is on character eccentricities and the clash between urban and rural life, rather than offering a critique of traditional identities or explicitly incorporating DEI themes.
Secondary
The film satirizes a specific, extreme, and often hypocritical brand of rural Christianity, portraying it as a source of the Starkadder family's dysfunction, misery, and resistance to progress. Religious fervor is depicted as a means of control and justification for eccentric behavior.
The film 'Cold Comfort Farm, 1995' does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative primarily focuses on Flora Poste's interactions with her eccentric heterosexual relatives and her efforts to modernize their lives and relationships in the English countryside.
Based on available information, the film "Cold Comfort Farm" does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative focuses on Flora Poste's efforts to modernize her eccentric relatives' lives on a dilapidated farm, without engaging with transgender identity or related issues.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The 1995 film "Cold Comfort Farm" is a faithful adaptation of the 1932 novel. All major characters retain their original gender from the source material, with no instances of a character canonically established as one gender being portrayed as another.
The 1995 film "Cold Comfort Farm" is an adaptation of the 1932 novel by Stella Gibbons. All major characters, originally depicted as white in the source material, are portrayed by white actors in the film, consistent with the novel's setting and character descriptions.
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6.8
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8.2
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