Cold Comfort Farm

“She discovered a new branch of her family tree... the one with all the nuts.”

Flora Poste (Kate Beckinsale) is a plucky London society girl, orphaned at nineteen, and she means to put her new relatives in order while she finds the material for a novel. Her only option is the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm, a rough, backward clan that includes Judith (Eileen Atkins). John Schlesinger adapts Stella Gibbons' 1932 satire, which holds that a stubborn household can be brought up to date by one person with a take-charge attitude.