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Once the ugly duckling in the Dorset village of Ewedown, Tamara Drewe returns to sell her late mother's house, now a glamorous journalist with a life-changing nose job. She awakens feelings in sexy old flame, Andy, the decent odd job man at pretentious author Nicholas Hardiment's writers' school and in Nicholas himself, a serial philanderer who cheats on his loyal wife Beth. But Tamara has a new man in her life, Ben, an obnoxious rock drummer whose marriage proposal she accepts, to the dismay of local girl - and Ben's biggest fan - Jody.
Tamara Drewe tries really hard to build up a lovable character roster, but falls short, no thanks to a breezy but overly involved script that's at times witty and at others simply trying too hard to be cute. Ultimately, the film fails to find much of an emotional center.
What is love? Baby don't hurt me A small and idyllic English town is home to a retreat for writers that promises a good, fresh place to write and a warm bed for those chilly English nights. Meals are communal-style, but there's no requirement to interact with staff and fellow guess. Not that there's anyone there who would turn away from good social interaction and, who knows, get to know the other writers a little better than their fronts and books suggest.
Nicholas Roger Allam is a writer but he's not paying to stay; he's married to the proprietor Beth Tamsin Greig who's about to find out that her husband has been unfaithful, causing a scene in front of a table full of guests who are more interested in gossip and hearing the fight play out than they are actually finishing their meal and getting back to work. Enter Tamara Drewe Gemma Arterton , a sultry young temptress who's curvy in all the right places and flat where she needs to be; her nose, in particular, has recently undergone renovation to remove an ugly hump.
The men gawk and the women groan as she flaunts around in a tank top and short shorts. Groundskeeper Andy Luke Evans , with whom the pre-rhinoplasty Tamara has a history, likes what he sees, but he loses out to a rock band drummer named Ben Dominic Cooper who is also the apple of young local Jody's Jessica Barden eye. With passion in the air and scheming rampant, the quiet writers's getaway is about to get a lot more steamy. Tamara Drewe is at least smartly-conceived even if it does struggle to find an identity beyond the superficial.
The film proves immediately engaging as a peculiar character roster is introduced, most of them aspiring or already successful writers hard at work on their latest would-be masterpieces of genres and styles as varied as the personalities scattered throughout the film. The infatuation with Tamara Drewe ends there, even if it's not immediately evident. The implication is that these are creative people, and it's that expectation for their greater ability to plot and plan and set in motion a series of events with a prepared plan of action that sets up the general plot line which whittles down to sex, infatuation, and infidelity, all of which the characters have or scheme to get it.
There's a bit more to Tamara Drewe than that, namely the comical and dramatic elements that stem from the arrival of a pretty little girl with a new nose and a flirtatious smile.
Unfortunately, the resultant escapades and run-ins with all sorts of interpersonal drama don't really amount to all that much seeing as that the characters aren't well-developed outside of that implied creativity or new nose and short shorts and who seem to exist only to set up one sexual or dramatic quagmire after another.
It's not hard to find the crux of the story, but it is difficult to take it seriously. It's a modern-day masquerade where the characters want to be someone else or find a new partner, all of them swirling around, trying on different masks, and hoping to get to where they want to be before the music stops playing or, worse yet, the audience stops caring. Indeed, Tamara Drewe is all about the superficial.
Two girls drool over a rock star knowing nothing about him but what he looks like in a well-prepared, probably airbrushed photograph and a glamorizing article in a magazine that might shed light on a man but that likely doesn't penetrate deep down to find out who he really is behind the eyeliner, hair gel, and scruffy hour shadow.
The Tamara character, too, is all about how she looks and how she's perceived on the outside. That she had a nose job seems only to reinforce the point that the movie is only concerned about the external, and rarely does the film or its characters seem to care about what's on the inside, lest they're inside her pants.
When it tries to prove otherwise, the audience isn't going to buy it. The film also wastes what would have been a better opportunity for snappier dialogue and more complex characters along the bloc of writers who appear in the film. Unfortunately, the screenplay whittles them all down to uninteresting placeholders who see no shortage of drama but who ultimately fail to grow from their experiences.
Tamara Drewe could have been a big mosh pit of human interaction, sexuality, creativity, and self-exploration, but it's instead just a fluff piece that wants to be funny but usually only succeeds at serving as an example of a blown opportunity in the midst of an intriguing setup. Gemma Arterton does have a few fleeting moments of shining brilliance, but she's limited by a script that emphasizes her body rather than her mind, which is what the whole of Tamara Drewe really boils down to.
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Street date for this Stephen Frears comedy starring Gemma Arterton and based on a serialized comic strip by Posy Simmonds is once Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has pulled Tamara Drewe from its release schedule; all editions both standard-def and high-def are affected.
This comedy directed by Stephen Frears and starring Gemma Arterton was initially slated for release on February 8, Stephen Frears directs this big-screen adaptation of the comic strip by Posy Simmonds. Gemma Arterton stars as Tamara Drewe, a former ugly duckling turned glamourpuss who makes a triumphant return to the sleepy Dorset village of Ewedown.
Having spent a few years in London reinventing herself as a music journalist and sex kitten, Tamara now makes an indelible mark on the village and its clutch of middle-class, sex-obsessed residents including philandering novelist Nicholas Hardiment Roger Allam , narcissistic pop star Ben Sergeant Dominic Cooper , teenage tearaways Jody and Casey Jessica Barden and Charlotte Christie , and Tamara's lovestruck former boyfriend, shy hunk Andy Luke Evans. When will my order arrive?
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