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Tamara Drewe Bilingual [Blu-ray]

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The sleepy English village of Ewedown becomes quite lively when former ugly duckling Tamara Drewe comes back to town. Now sporting a perky new nose and sexy Daisy Dukes, Tamara quickly becomes involved with a rock star, an older man, and her childhood sweetheart. With a large cast and many subplots, the story of what really goes on behind the quaint postcard-pretty closed doors is full of laughs and tender moments and even some cattle stampedes.

This movie is completely charming. The characters are all believable, the setting is idyllic, and the script is clever and quirky. All of the adult shenanigans are witnessed - and complicated - by a pair of adolescent girls, a kind of comical Greek chorus who tie it all together. If you like good, indie British films, you'll love this one.

Boy, I was looking forward to a good English movie and I sincerely say, having read the critics and seen the movie, I can not come to terms at all the good media coverage tis movie had had. It is beautifully shot and makes one want to jump on an aircraft to enjoy the English countryside, but the film is one of the worst British film of then year. It has an abstract plot, except for a broken nose, the story has no direction, the characters are flat as a Shrove Day pancake and I feel tat you should save your money for the King's Speech or Black Swan.