Cold Comfort Farm May 18, 2009

Marion Carnegie Library’s “Read the Movie, Watch the Book” program selection for May is Cold Comfort Farm. Each month the library chooses a new book and film combination. Participation is open to all community members, who may participate by reading the book, watching the movie or doing both. The movie will be shown on Monday, May 18 at 5 p.m. in the McCoskey Room, the library’s lower level multi-purpose room. Discussion time will be available after the movie.

Cold Comfort Farm is a novel by Stella Gibbons published in 1932. It parodies the romanticized, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time. The 1995 movie version is a comedy starring Kate Beckinsale, Ian McKellen, Rufus Sewell and Stephen Fry. In England in the early 1930s, 20-year-old Flora Poste, recently orphaned and left with only 100 pounds a year, goes to stay with distant relatives on Cold Comfort Farm. Everyone on the gloomy farm is an oddball with a problem. Despite protests from the bedridden, iron-willed matriarch of the farm, Flora tries to achieve some semblance of order and class in the house -- and in her own life. It is rated PG.

For more information, call 993-5935 from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.

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