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==Cast==
==Cast==
*[[Gemma Arterton]] as [[Tamara Drewe]]
*[[Gemma Arterton]] as [[Tamara Drewe]]
*[[Roger Allam]] as Nicholas Hardiman
*[[Roger Allam]] as Nicholas Hardiment
*[[Bill Camp]] as Glen McCreavy
*[[Bill Camp]] as Glen McCreavy
*[[Dominic Cooper]] as Ben Sergeant
*[[Dominic Cooper]] as Ben Sergeant
*[[Luke Evans (actor)|Luke Evans]] as Andy Cobb
*[[Luke Evans (actor)|Luke Evans]] as Andy Cobb
*[[Tamsin Greig]] as Beth Hardiman
*[[Tamsin Greig]] as Beth Hardiment
*[[Jessica Barden]] as Jody Long
*[[Jessica Barden]] as Jody Long
*Charlotte Christie as Casey Shaw
*Charlotte Christie as Casey Shaw
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*[[Susan Wooldridge]] as Penny Upminster
*[[Susan Wooldridge]] as Penny Upminster
*[[Alex Kelly (actor)|Alex Kelly]] as Jody's mother
*[[Alex Kelly (actor)|Alex Kelly]] as Jody's mother
*Lola Frears as Poppy Hardiman
*Lola Frears as Poppy Hardiment


==Premiere==
==Premiere==

Revision as of 01:59, 29 December 2012

Tamara Drewe
UK theatrical release poster
Directed byStephen Frears
Screenplay byMoira Buffini
Produced byAlison Owen
Tracey Seaward
Paul Trijbits
StarringGemma Arterton
Dominic Cooper
Luke Evans
CinematographyBen Davis
Edited byMick Audsley
Music byAlexandre Desplat
Production
companies
Ruby Films
BBC Films
WestEnd Films
Distributed byDiaphana Films (France)
Momentum Pictures (UK)
Sony Pictures Classics (US)
Release dates
  • 18 May 2010 (2010-05-18) (Cannes)
  • 20 September 2010 (2010-09-20) (United Kingdom)
Running time
111 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office$11,910,695[1]

Tamara Drewe is a 2010 comedy feature film directed by Stephen Frears.

The screenplay was written by Moira Buffini, based on the newspaper comic strip of the same name (which was then re-published as a graphic novel) written by Posy Simmonds. The comic strip which serves as source material was a modern reworking of Thomas Hardy's nineteenth century novel Far from the Madding Crowd.

The film premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival in May and was released nationwide in France on 14 July 2010.[2][3] Momentum Pictures released the film in the United Kingdom on 10 September 2010.[4]

Plot

Set in Ewedown, a fictitious village in Dorset, England. Tamara Drewe, a young and attractive journalist, returns home with the intention of selling her now-deceased mother's house which she has inherited, and in which she grew up. Locals are amazed at the improvement in her appearance after she had a nose job while away. Andy had been interested in her when she was a girl, and when he sees her now it is clear he is attracted to her.

Across the valley is a neighbour's house where authors stay to work on their stories, but the husband, Nicholas, a prolific crime novelist, keeps having affairs while his wife stays at home providing food and lodging for her patrons. At one point he embarks on an affair with Tamara, after she finishes with rock-band drummer Ben, whose dog Boss enjoys chasing cows. Andy has been asked by Tamara to work on the house so she can sell it, and he becomes aware of the affairs, as do two local schoolgirls (Jody and Casey) who cause some havoc by throwing eggs at cars and interfering with Tamara's emails.

The teen Jody is infatuated with Ben, and when he leaves Ewedown after the Tamara affair, Jody uses her wiles to lure him back. Eventually her deceit is discovered and she receives a hard dose of reality. In a strange turn of events, Nicholas is killed in an accident. Beth, the jilted housewife running the writers' retreat, is befriended and then loved by one of her lodgers, and she easily persuades him to remain at the retreat with her. By this time the true love of Andy and Tamara brings them together, Tamara deciding to stay in Ewedown after all.

Cast

Premiere

The premiere was held on 6 September 2010 at the Odeon Leicester Square. Most of the cast and crew were in attendance as well as Jack Gregson, Lily Allen and Stephen Fry. The public premiere was also held on 6 September 2010 at the National Film Theatre. Most of the cast were in attendance as well as director Stephen Frears, screenwriter Moira Buffini, and book author Posy Simmonds. The film's showing received long applause and was followed by questions to the stars from the audience.

Critical Reception

The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 65% out of 114 critics gave the film a positive reviews, with a rating average of 6.3/10.[5]

Empire gave four stars out of five stating the film was "Very intelligently funny, with stellar performances."[6] Lisa Mullen wrote in Sight & Sound in September 2010:

Turning graphic novels into films can be a tricky business...an impressively limpid, compressed and visually textured piece... here the romantic themes—concerning sensible spouse choice... are undercut by a bawdy appreciation of chaos, mischief and mayhem... Beth Hardiment played with great subtlety and a kind of concentrated stillness by Tamsin Greig...

References

  1. ^ "Tamara Drewe (2010)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 20 September 2010.
  2. ^ Higgins, Charlotte (17 May 2010). "Tamara Drewe comic strip charms Cannes in film form". guardian.co.uk (Guardian News & Media). Retrieved on 31 May 2010.
  3. ^ Tamara Drewe. premiere.fr. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
  4. ^ Bamigboye, Baz (17 July 2009). "Gemma Arterton is wanted by The Queen director to get crowd Madding in sexy new role". Daily Mail (Associated Newspapers).
  5. ^ Tamara Drewe (2010). Rotten Tomatoes. Flixter. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
  6. ^ "Empire's Tamara Drewe Movie Review". Empireonline.com. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
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