Synopsis
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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Cast
- Gemma ArtertonTamara Drewe
- Roger AllamNicholas Hardiment
- Bill CampGlen McCreavy
- Dominic CooperBen Sergeant
- Jessica BardenJody Long
- Luke EvansAndy Cobb
- Tamsin GreigBeth Hardiment
- Charlotte ChristieCasey Shaw
- Alex KellyJody's Mum
- James NaughtieInterviewer
Recommendations
- 80
Boxoffice Magazine
The deadly sins of envy, lust and salacious gossip in deepest rural England provide the motor for Stephen Frears's black romp, featuring vivacious former Bond girl Gemma Arterton. - 80
Empire
Think The Archers with a sprinkling of trendier folk and a lot more shagging. Very intelligently funny, with stellar performances. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Jaunty and entertaining. - 75
The A.V. Club
While Tamara Drew is enjoyable throughout-right up to its loony, loony ending-it's more than a little scattered. - 70
Variety
Adapted from a comicstrip-turned-graphic novel by Posy Simmonds, which was itself based on Thomas Hardy's "Far From the Madding Crowd," picture represents a satirical but soft-biting swipe at contempo middle-class mores among Blighty's chattering countryside classes. - 70
Village Voice
Frears might have accelerated the comic pacing, but the story is a good one and events come nicely to a boil. - 70
Chicago Reader
Thomas Hardy it's not, but as far as middlebrow British romances go, better this than "Love Actually." - 65
Movieline
Most of Stephen Frears' Tamara Drewe is so breezily entertaining, and so bracingly clear-eyed about what total pains in the asses writers can be, that its final 15 minutes feel like an all-wrong slap in the face.
