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Gemma Arterton stars in "Tamara Drewe" from Sony Pictures Classics. The drama/thriller opens on October 8th in New York and Los Angeles and includes Dominic Cooper, Roger Allam, Luke Evans, Bill Camp and Tamsin Greig.

Stephen Frears ("The Queen," "Dirty Pretty Things") directs from the screenplay by Moira Buffini based on the graphic novel by Posy Simmonds.

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PLOT:
Based on Posy Simmonds’ beloved graphic novel of the same name (which was itself inspired by Thomas Hardy’s classic Far From the Madding Crowd) this wittily modern take on the romantic English pastoral is a far cry from Hardy’s Wessex. Tamara Drewe’s present-day English countryside—stocked with pompous writers, rich weekenders, bourgeois bohemians, a horny rock star, and a great many Buff Orpington chickens and Belted Galloway cows—is a much funnier place. When Tamara Drewe sashays back to the bucolic village of her youth, life for the locals is thrown upside down. Tamara—once an ugly duckling—has been transformed into a devastating beauty (with help from plastic surgery). As infatuations, jealousies, love affairs and career ambitions collide among the inhabitants of the neighboring farmsteads, Tamara sets a contemporary comedy of manners into play using the oldest magic in the book—sex appeal.