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Tamara Drewe
The return of beautiful journalist Tamara Drewe (Gemma Arterton) awakens destructive passions in a Dorset village.
Comedy 2010 111 mins
Director: Stephen Frears
Overview
Stephen Frears directs this wry comic take on middle-class manners, frustration and sexual rivalry in an English village, based on Posy Simmonds' perceptive graphic novel - itself an update of Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd. With great supporting turns by Roger Allam as Tamara's lecherous neighbour, Tamsin Greig as his long-suffering wife and Dominic Cooper as Tamara's rock star boyfriend

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