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Cold Comfort (1989)
Director: Vic Sarin
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From Time Out Film Guide
A disturbed father rescues a businessman (Gross) from a blizzard, then takes him home as a birthday present for his nubile daughter. Apparently based on a cult fringe theatre piece, it's a disquietingly strange offering, powered along by big Maury Chakin's gradually unravelling performance as the wacko paterfamilias. Former cinematographer Sarin sustains the oddball tension; but of interest chiefly to connoisseurs of the bizarre.Author: TJ
Cast & crew
Director: Vic Sarin
Producer: Illana Frank, Ray Sager
Cast: Maury Chaykin, Margaret Langrick, Paul Gross full cast
Duration: 88 mins
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