Dolores has everthing she wants for her birthday: a party, 18 glowing candles, and Stephen, the handsome stranger who's more than a guest. He's a prisoner. COLD COMFORT bristles with the suspense, passion and danger of three people caught up in a madman's game.
Acting
Maury Chaykin's terrifying, pathetic, unforgettable Floyd.
Direction
Vic Sarin traps you in that farmhouse like another prisoner.
Director
Vic Sarin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Jim Garrard's play, which was itself inspired by a real 1930s prairie kidnapping case. The theatrical roots explain those deliciously cramped three-hander dynamics.
This is peak 'Tax Shelter Era' Canadian cinema — that weird 1975-1982 boom where government incentives produced brilliant, uncommercial oddities that Hollywood would never touch. Paul Gross before Due South made him a heartthrob!
US
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