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Synopsis: The Independent journalist Tamara Drewe returns to Dorset, Ewedown, to sell the Winnard Farm that belonged to her deceased mother. Her neighbor Beth Hardiment runs a writers retreat with her unfaithful and womanizer husband Nicholas Hardiment who is a successful writer of Inchcombe adventures and cheats on Beth every now and then with younger women. Tamara was the sweetheart of the handyman Andy Cobb, whose family owned the Winnard Farm but lost it to Tamara's family, and when she sees him, she rekindles her love for him. However, when Tamara travels to interview the unpleasant drummer of the Swipe band Ben Sergeant, he has just found that his girlfriend Fran is having an affair with the other musician Steven Culley and he breaks up with the band. Tamara and Ben have a love affair and Ben moves to Winnard. Meanwhile, Ben's teenager fan Jody Long and her best friend Casey Shaw who are bored in Ewedown feel happy with the presence of Ben in the village. When Ben proposes to Tamara, they
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Stephen Frears
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  3 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
64
Rotten Tomatoes:
65%
R
Year:
2010
107 min
$560,101
Website
554 Views


GOLDENROD REVISIONS 20.10.09 9.

At an upstairs window we can see Beth hold a dress up to

herself and then abandon the idea.

TESS:

Did it sell?

GLEN:

Well my kind of books aren’t about

sales. I mean that’s not why I

write. So... no.

TESS:

What are you working on next?

Upstairs, through a window, we see Beth is putting on a

blouse.

17 INT. EVENING. STONEFIELD. BETH’S BEDROOM. 17

Beth is looking at herself in a cheval mirror. She’s full of

hope that Nicholas will take her out - and dread that he’ll

find some excuse.

18 EXT. EVENING. STONEFIELD. THE GROUNDS (PATIO). 18

GLEN:

Thomas Hardy.

DIGGORY:

Is there anything left to say about

that maudlin bore?

GLEN:

Excuse me but there is nothing dull

about Hardy. That is a

misconception.

TESS:

At least you’ve been published. I’m

seething with envy; I’d love to be

published.

EUSTACIA:

I publish myself on the internet.

TESS:

Oh, do you earn money doing that?

EUSTACIA:

No.

GLEN:

So what do you write?

EUSTACIA:

Lesbian crime.

GOLDENROD REVISIONS 20.10.09 9A.

Casey drops a potato in Glen’s wine.

EUSTACIA (CONT'D)

I’m here picking up tips from the

master.

GOLDENROD REVISIONS 20.10.09 10.

19 INT. EVENING. STONEFIELD - DOWNSTAIRS. 19

The door to the garden is open, letting in the eveing air.

Nicholas is waiting for Beth by the mirror. He is full of

unease - but can’t help finding himself handsome. His phone

bleeps; a text. He reads it anxiously.

NICHOLAS:

(calling)

Beth, why don’t I just pop out on

my own?

Beth, determined to force things, comes downstairs.

BETH:

But I’m ready. Come on.

She’s on her way to join him.

NICHOLAS:

Is that - I mean - are you wearing

that?

BETH:

Oh.

NICHOLAS:

Just looks a bit... hot.

Now Beth knows she is right. She takes her jacket off,

gutted.

NICHOLAS (CONT'D)

You know, Haddition’s always packed

with pissed Londonites on a Friday. I

doubt we’ll get a table anyway. Let’s

do it properly next week; make an

occasion. I’m always taking you for

granted. I’m vile I know; you should

kick me really, but

He’s about to leave. Beth speaks calmly.

BETH:

Who is she?

The question hangs in the air. Nicholas’ smile is frozen.

NICHOLAS:

What?

For a moment, he tries to find a lie.

NICHOLAS (CONT'D)

Oh come on, Beth.

BETH:

Tell me. Who?

GOLDENROD REVISIONS 20.10.09 11.

NICHOLAS:

Look, it’s nothing. It’s been once

or twice, that’s all. Beth, it’s

not anything.

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Moira Buffini

Buffini was born in Cheshire to Irish parents, and studied English and Drama at Goldsmiths College, London University (1983–86). She subsequently trained as an actor at the Welsh College of Music and Drama. For Jordan, co-written with Anna Reynolds in 1992, she won a Time Out Award for her performance and Writers' Guild Award for Best Fringe play.[2] Her 1997 play Gabriel was performed at Soho theatre, winning the LWT Plays on Stage award and the Meyer-Whitworth Award. Her 1999 play Silence earned Buffini the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for best English-language play by a woman. Loveplay followed at the RSC in 2001, then Dinner at the National Theatre in 2003 which transferred to the West End and was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Comedy. more…

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