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- Release Date: 1989
- Runtime: 111 min
- Genre: Drama
- Starring: Maury Chaykin, Margaret Langrick, Paul Gross, Jayne Eastwood ... see all
- Director: Vic Sarin
- Plot: Three lonely people depend on each other when they get stranded at a deserted gas station in a blizzard. Floyd is a truck driver balancing on the edge of lunacy.... Read more
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| Mar 10, 1990Washington Post
" Cold Comfort," an aptly titled psychodrama, is excruciating sludge, a grim parable of emancipation from Canada's wind-whistled, snow-swept prairies. ... Full Review
eFilmCritic.com
Great film, great performances, a real surprise in every respect.
Paul Gross is our yuppie hero, and while he probably would have given Maurys daughter one and left in a hurry had he been healthy, he starts to worry when he begins to realize that his being brought to the lonely snowbound house wasnt so much as a patient, but more as a present.
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The New York Times
Cold Comfort is grim, slow, and certainly not for everyone, but for those who appreciate intricate psychodrama, Cold Comfort is well worth viewing.
Stephen ( Paul Gross ), a handsome traveling salesman, is Floyd's ( Maury Chaykin ) birthday gift to his daughter Dolores ( Margaret Langrick ).
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