Cold Comfort Farm Have Always Been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm", set several years later and based on "Conference at Cold Comfort Farm", when Flora is married with several children, was broadcast. In 1995 a television film was produced which was generally well-received, with critics. Janet Maslin in the "New York Times" wrote that this screen version "gets it exactly right". The film starred Kate Beckinsale as Flora, Joanna Lumley as her friend and mentor Mary Smiling, Rufus Sewell as Seth, Ian McKellen as Amos Starkadder, Eileen Atkins as Judith, Stephen Fry as Mybug, Miriam Margolyes as Mrs. Beetle, and Angela Thorne as
The Wife (1995 film) issues are being shared in analysis, as well as the private troubles of the therapists themselves. Stephen Holden of "The New York Times" gave the film a mixed review: The Wife (1995 film) The Wife is a 1995 film written and directed by Tom Noonan, based on his play "Wifey". The film was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, after Noonan had won the Grand Prize the previous year with What Happened Was... Jack and his wife Rita, both professional therapists, live and work in virtual isolation in a remote Vermont cottage. One night,