Cold Comfort Farm 1995  PG, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Schlesinger
Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Eileen Atkins, Sheila Burrell, Stephen Fry, Freddie Jones, Ian McKellen, Joanna Lumley, Rufus Sewell, Miriam Margolyes, Ivan Kaye
This is a good film based on Stella Gibbons' 1932 novel about a society girl, Flora Poste (Kate Beckinsale), who is orphaned at age 19. Unprepared for work, Stella contacts distant relatives, and her cousin, Judith Starkadder (Eileen Atkins), invites her to join her family on their run-down farm. Stella takes up the offer and proceeds to transform those living on the farm as well as the farm itself.
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Control 2004  R, 98 min.
Genre: Thriller
Director: Jonathan Baker, Tim Hunter
Cast: Ray Liotta, Willem Dafoe, Michelle Rodriguez, Stephen Rea, Kathleen Robertson, Nick Brimble, Polly Walker, Mac McDonald, Mark Letheren, Ivan Kaye
Sociopath Lee Ray Oliver (Ray Liotta) is about to pay the ultimate price for the brutal murders he committed. But rather than receive a lethal injection, he received a strong sedative that put him into a deep sleep. After being pronounced dead, he awakens later to find that he is getting a second chance IF he participates in an experimental mood-changing experiment to cure a person of criminal instincts. He is given a new name and sent to a small town to start a new life. But old habits are hard to break, despite the medications.
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| 1. Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
2. Control (2004)
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