A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale.A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale.A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale.
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6.2/10
22K
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- Director
- Writers
- Posy Simmonds(graphic novel)
- Moira Buffini(screenplay)
- Stars
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- Director
- Writers
- Posy Simmonds(graphic novel)
- Moira Buffini(screenplay)
- Stars
- Awards
- 3 wins & 3 nominations
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- Director
- Writers
- Posy Simmonds(graphic novel)
- Moira Buffini(screenplay)
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
The Independent journalist Tamara Drewe returns to Dorset, Ewedown, to sell the Winnard Farm that belonged to her deceased mother. Her neighbor Beth Hardiment runs a writers retreat with her unfaithful and womanizer husband Nicholas Hardiment who is a successful writer of Inchcombe adventures and cheats on Beth every now and then with younger women. Tamara was the sweetheart of the handyman Andy Cobb, whose family owned the Winnard Farm but lost it to Tamara's family, and when she sees him, she rekindles her love for him. However, when Tamara travels to interview the unpleasant drummer of the Swipe band Ben Sergeant, he has just found that his girlfriend Fran is having an affair with the other musician Steven Culley and he breaks up with the band. Tamara and Ben have a love affair and Ben moves to Winnard. Meanwhile, Ben's teenager fan Jody Long and her best friend Casey Shaw who are bored in Ewedown feel happy with the presence of Ben in the village. When Ben proposes to Tamara, they travel to London to spend a couple of days in the big city. Meanwhile, the jealous Casey breaks in Tamara's house and uses her computer to send an e-mail pretending to be Tamara that will change the lives of the dwellers and end in a tragedy. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Taglines
- A comedy about sex, love and a nose job...
- Genres
- Certificate
- K-12
- Parents guide
Did you know
- TriviaIn addition to being loosely based on a novel by Thomas Hardy, including a character who is writing a book about Hardy, and having a photograph of Hardy prominently displayed in one scene, the location filming was done in Dorset, where most of Hardy's novels are set - "Wessex" being a thinly fictionalized Dorset. The small ad for the writers' retreat that appears at the beginning of the film is also headed with the title of the novel: "Far from the Madding Crowd".
- GoofsWhen the writers at the writers' retreat are typing their books, their keystrokes obviously have nothing to do with the text that is going through their heads.
- Quotes
Tamara Drewe: So, who are your influences?
Ben Sergeant: Everyone asks that. I mean, what do you want me to say? Phil Collins? Animal from The Muppets?
- Alternate versionsThe version of the film released at the Cannes Film Festival 2010 and in France theatrically and on DVD differs from the theatrical version released worldwide. The differences are the changing of a line in a scene between Jody and Casey in Tamara's bedroom as Jody comments on Tamara being "a lucky c***", instead of "a lucky cow", and also with the inclusion of explanatory captions at the close of the film elaborating on events which take place after the film's timeline:
- FIN
- "Hardy's Aphrodite" by Dr. Glen McCreavy MFA, PhD received rave reviews. It only sold 6,002 copies.
- Tamara Drewe's forthcoming novel (about a writers' retreat) has already been optioned for a movie.
- After a spell in rehab, Ben Sergeant wrote five tracks for his new album, including stellar hit "Jail-Bait Jody".
- ConnectionsFeatured in At the Movies: Cannes Film Festival 2010 (2010)
- SoundtracksThe Fear
Written by Lily Allen (as Lily Rose Allen) and Greg Kurstin (as Gregory Kurstin) © 2008
Performed by Lily Allen
Published by Universal Music Publishing Ltd. and EMI Music Publishing Limited
Licensed courtesy of EMI Records Ltd.
Top review
Entertainement I love
A very, very good movie, no doubt. Everything, in particular, each man, woman, chicken, car, tear, cow and dog and meadow, each pop and tune is on the right place. Excellent dialogs, sparkling soundtrack, gorgeous photography, rich colors, fresh, witty and ebullient, perfectly balanced black and ... regular humor. The story is nicely knitted, a lot of grey matter must have been consumed for the dialogs. Some lines have got what it takes to become a "quote". I loved it! Found a few British stereotypes? So what? Troubles to follow the quick replies in the original English version? Cannot follow the subtitles while trying to translate the cream of the jokes? So what? Watch it again!! I will!
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- ingrid-109
- Aug 5, 2010
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- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- El regreso de Tamara Drewe
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $560,391
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $18,604
- Oct 10, 2010
- Gross worldwide
- $12,037,973
- Runtime1 hour 47 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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