Calendar Girls
starring: Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Penelope Wilton, John Alderton, Linda Bassett
directed by: Nigel Cole
directed by: Nigel Cole
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CHRIS & ANNIE ARE BEST FRIENDS LIVING IN YORKSHIRE WHEN ANNIE'S HUSBAND DIES OR LEUKEMIA. CHRIS ENLISTS THE HELP OF THE WOMAN'S INSTITUTE IN A FUND-RAISER FOR THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. HER IDEA IS TO PRODUCE A CALENDAR WITH DIFFERENT WOMAN PHOTOGRAPED FOR EACH MONTH. THE RADICAL TWIST - THE WOMAN WILL BE IN THE NUDE!
Amazon.com:
In the sensible yet elegant hands of actresses Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, Calendar Girls walks a fine line between sappiness and snickering and ends up both wonderfully funny and gently touching. When her best friend Annie (Walters, Billy Elliot) loses her husband, Chris (Mirren, Prime Suspect, Gosford Park) cooks up a scheme to memorialize him: They and their friends--all fiftysomething women--will make a nude calendar to raise money for the hospital where he died. The calendar becomes hugely popular, but the success may drive a wedge between the two women's friendship. Based on an actual event, Calendar Girls carefully balances the stories of several women as it follows the calendar's media explosion, becoming a surprisingly moving fable of loss, determination, and the perils of fame. And let's face it--Helen Mirren is one of the wittiest and sexiest women alive, clothes on or not. --Bret Fetzer
CHRIS & ANNIE ARE BEST FRIENDS LIVING IN YORKSHIRE WHEN ANNIE'S HUSBAND DIES OR LEUKEMIA. CHRIS ENLISTS THE HELP OF THE WOMAN'S INSTITUTE IN A FUND-RAISER FOR THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. HER IDEA IS TO PRODUCE A CALENDAR WITH DIFFERENT WOMAN PHOTOGRAPED FOR EACH MONTH. THE RADICAL TWIST - THE WOMAN WILL BE IN THE NUDE!
Amazon.com:
In the sensible yet elegant hands of actresses Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, Calendar Girls walks a fine line between sappiness and snickering and ends up both wonderfully funny and gently touching. When her best friend Annie (Walters, Billy Elliot) loses her husband, Chris (Mirren, Prime Suspect, Gosford Park) cooks up a scheme to memorialize him: They and their friends--all fiftysomething women--will make a nude calendar to raise money for the hospital where he died. The calendar becomes hugely popular, but the success may drive a wedge between the two women's friendship. Based on an actual event, Calendar Girls carefully balances the stories of several women as it follows the calendar's media explosion, becoming a surprisingly moving fable of loss, determination, and the perils of fame. And let's face it--Helen Mirren is one of the wittiest and sexiest women alive, clothes on or not. --Bret Fetzer
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: 
- Fun Movie
Strange subject material, but it made a very interesting movie.We enjoyed it very much.
Rating: - Makes you think *and* laugh
One of my favorite movies of the last 10 years - Calendar Girls is witty (pay close attention to catch all of Chris's sotto voce comments) while dealing with serious life experiences like marital troubles, juvenile misbehaviour, and even death.Helen Mirren and Julie Waters demonstrate why they are two of the best actresses in the business but their fellow calendar girls are not overshadowed, even thought the actresses play them may be relatively unknown.Worth seeing any night of the week. ... Read More
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- BBC type middle aged Calendar girls
How to rise money for your local cancer charity?
The mostly unlikely naked/ nude calendar
in the world is middle aged house wives from middle class England?
Right out of fetish porn maybe, you are thinking?
You really have to see this movie to believe it.
It has that understated British humor effect.
Rating: - Calender Girls
I absolutly love this movie i bought one for me and one for my Mom it is one of her favorites.
Rating: - Calendar Girls
The product exceeded satisfaction. Was shippped faster than noted withh confirmation. Packaging looked new. Have not looked at movie yet.
- Fun MovieStrange subject material, but it made a very interesting movie.We enjoyed it very much.
- Makes you think *and* laughOne of my favorite movies of the last 10 years - Calendar Girls is witty (pay close attention to catch all of Chris's sotto voce comments) while dealing with serious life experiences like marital troubles, juvenile misbehaviour, and even death.Helen Mirren and Julie Waters demonstrate why they are two of the best actresses in the business but their fellow calendar girls are not overshadowed, even thought the actresses play them may be relatively unknown.Worth seeing any night of the week. ... Read More
- BBC type middle aged Calendar girlsHow to rise money for your local cancer charity?
The mostly unlikely naked/ nude calendar
in the world is middle aged house wives from middle class England?
Right out of fetish porn maybe, you are thinking?
You really have to see this movie to believe it.
It has that understated British humor effect.
- Calender GirlsI absolutly love this movie i bought one for me and one for my Mom it is one of her favorites.
- Calendar GirlsThe product exceeded satisfaction. Was shippped faster than noted withh confirmation. Packaging looked new. Have not looked at movie yet.
