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Tamara Drewe (2010)

  • Cast Highlights:
  • Dominic Cooper
  • Luke Evans
  • Tamsin Greig
  • Roger Allam
  • John Turturro
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    Character: Tamara Drewe
    Production Status: Completed
    Release Date: September 10, 2010 (UK)
    Director: Stephen Frears
    Writers: Moira Buffini (screenplay), Posy Simmonds
    (graphic novel)
    Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
    MPAA Rating: n/a

    Plot Outline:
    A woman raises the temperature when she arrives at a writers' retreat in a quiet country village.

    As a teenager, Tamara has issues with her looks, but in her early 20s she has cosmetic surgery on her nose, loses weight and transforms herself into a voluptuous beauty who returns to the rural town where she grew up and engages with the locals in country matters.

    Tamara becomes romantically involved with three different men: Ben, a fit rock band drummer played by Dominic Cooper; Andy, the dashing groundskeeper essayed by Luke Evans; and Nicholas, the philandering literary retreat organiser played by Roger Allam. His wife Beth is played by Tamsin Greig.

    The story is based on a Posy Simmonds newspaper comic strip that was published as a graphic novel in 2007. Simmonds's strip ran in the Guardian's Review section between September 2005 and October 2007 before being collected in a graphic novel. The tragicomic story was inspired by a piece of classic fiction - Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd; likewise her earlier serialised cartoon, Gemma Bovery, took Flaubert's Madame Bovary as its template.

    Gemma's Role:
    Gemma Arterton is Tamara Drewe, a newspaper columnist who just happens to be a knock-out beauty. When she arrives at the fictional village, she garners the attention of lusty men - and the ire of their womenfolk.

    Simmonds based her tale on Thomas Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd, with Hardy's heroine Bathsheba becoming Tamara, a writer with a recent nose job.

    Gemma explained that she knows "a lot of people just like Tamara."

    She said she found her character "lost in her expectations of being a modern woman in today's world - the expectations of beauty and success - when what really desires is to be loved."
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