Tamara Drewe
- Release Date
- July 14, 2010
- Director
- Stephen Frears
- Cast
- Gemma Arterton , Dominic Cooper , Luke Evans , Tamsin Greig , Roger Allam , Bill Camp
- Runtime
- 107
- Main Genre
- Comedy
- Writers
- Moira Buffini , Posy Simmonds
- Tagline
- A new comedy about love, sex, and a nose job.
Summary
Based on Posy Simmonds’ beloved graphic novel of the same name (which was itself inspired by Thomas Hardy’s classic Far From the Madding Crowd), this wittily modern take on the romantic English pastorale is a far cry from Hardy’s Wessex. Tamara Drewe’s present-day English countryside—stocked with pompous writers, rich weekenders, bourgeois bohemians, a horny rock star, and a great many Buff Orpington chickens and Belted Galloway cows—is a much funnier place. When Tamara Drewe sashays back to the bucolic village of her youth, life for the locals is thrown tail over teakettle. Tamara—once an ugly duckling—has been transformed into a devastating beauty (with help from plastic surgery). As infatuations, jealousies, love affairs and career ambitions collide among t
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