Kate Beckinsale a film based on the Danish legend which inspired Shakespeare's "Hamlet", and starred in the murder mystery "Uncovered". In 1995, while studying in Paris, she filmed the French language "". Shortly after leaving Oxford University in 1995, Beckinsale starred in "Cold Comfort Farm" as Flora Poste, a newly orphaned 1930s socialite sent to live with distant family members in rural England. The John Schlesinger-directed film was an adaptation of Stella Gibbons's novel and also featured Joanna Lumley, Eileen Atkins, Ian McKellen, Rufus Sewell and Stephen Fry. Beckinsale was initially considered too young, but was cast after she wrote a pleading
Kate Beckinsale first place." The film received mainly negative reviews. "Variety" found her performance "one-note" while "The Hollywood Reporter" described her as "one-dimensional." "USA Today" remarked she "spends much of the movie strutting down hallways and looking relentlessly, though blandly, nasty." The "New York Post" asserted Beckinsale "vastly overstays her welcome." The film has grossed $198 million from a production budget of over $200 million. In 2014, Beckinsale starred in the legal thriller "The Trials of Cate McCall" opposite Nick Nolte and James Cromwell. The film received negative reviews and was released as a Lifetime movie. She next appeared in the little-seen