Tamara Drewe November 26, 2010

Based on Posy Simmonds's beloved graphic novel (which was itself inspired by Thomas Hardy's 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 (Dominic Cooper), and a great many Buff Orpington chickens and Belted Galloway cows - is a much funnier place.

When Tamara Drewe (Gemma Arterton) 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 a nose job).

As infatuations, jealousies, love affairs and career ambitions collide among the inhabitants of the neighbouring farmsteads, Tamara sets a contemporary comedy of manners into play using the oldest magic in the book - sex appeal.

Doors open at 7.30pm and the performance starts at 8 pm. Tickets are priced at £5, with a concession of £4 for OAPs (60 and over). Tickets are available from the Liphook Millennium Centre 01428 723889, Bramshott & Liphook Parish Council Office. Tel: 01428 722988, and on the door.

Tickets can also be ordered by e-mail: liphookmcentre@tiscali.co.uk for collection and payment on the night. A range of refreshments will be on sale. The film is classified as a 15.

www.bramshottandliphook-pc.gov.uk/Millennium%20centre/Cinema.htm