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Calendar Girls (2003) 6.8
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6.8/10 from 14,159 users
Metascore: 60/100
Reviews: 135 user | 109 critic | 30 from Metacritic.com A Women's Institute chapter's fundraising effort for a local hospital by posing nude for a calendar becomes a media sensation. Director:Nigel Cole |
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Frank
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Middle aged Chris Harper and Annie Clarke are best friends. They spend much of their time at their local Knapely, Yorkshire County chapter of the Women's Institute (WI), whose motto is "enlightenment, fun and friendship". Although they like most of the women at the WI (the friendship part), they, but the perceived flaky Chris in particular, hold the way Marie, the local president, runs the chapter with derision. They find much of what goes on there, especially the monthly presentations, banal and devoid of enlightenment and fun. Equally as banal was last year's fund-raising calendar, featuring local bridges, which raised a meager £75.60, with this year's proposed calendar, local churches, promising to be even more so. After Annie's husband John passes away from leukemia, Chris wants the WI to provide a memorial in his memory: a new sofa for the family room at the hospital. The one Chris wants to buy costs £999, which she proposes to raise by changing the fund-raising calendar to one ... Written by Huggo
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Some ladies will do anything for a good cause. See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated PG-13 for nudity, some language and drug-related material | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
12 September 2003 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
Chicas de calendario See more »Box Office
Budget:
$10,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$458,730 (Spain) (9 January 2004)Gross:
$31,011,616 (USA) (9 April 2004)Company Credits
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Traditional, arranged by Brian Wilson
Published by EMI United Partnership Ltd.
Performed by The Beach Boys
Courtesy of Capitol Records
Under license from EMI Film & TV Music
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When staged as a touring theatrical event in the UK, the fluctuating ensemble throughout the run featured: Lynda Bellingham, Trudie Goodwin, Ruth Madoc, Bernie Nolan, Diana Moran, Lisa Riley, Gwen Taylor, Jan Harvey, June Watson, Debbie Chazen, Michelle Collins, Jennifer Ellison, Danielle Bux, Bruno Langley, Joe McGann. The stage show generated more box office revenue than the movie release. See more »Goofs
In the scene with the press conference, as Chris is making her way to the front, journalists are holding cassette recorders out, as if seeking comment. However, they are playing their recorders, not recording, since the play buttons are pushed, but the red record buttons are not. See more »Crazy Credits
The cast list is split into two halves. The first thirteen actors/characters (Helen Mirren/Chris to John Fortune/Frank) are followed by the main crew such as the producers, writer and director, with the remaining cast appearing after this. See more »Soundtracks
"Sloop John B"Traditional, arranged by Brian Wilson
Published by EMI United Partnership Ltd.
Performed by The Beach Boys
Courtesy of Capitol Records
Under license from EMI Film & TV Music
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This delightful female cast, brings back to the screen an excellent, entertaining, funny, and dramatic wicked elegance of The Full Monty phenomenon with a feminine twist. Julie Waters in a Supporting Actress Oscar performance together with Helen Mirren easily capture the British wry humor and the typical stuck-up attitude of old English propriety its predecessor. There are great moments of laughter and sobering moments of reality and realization of sacrifice, loss, betrayal. One of the best movies of the year. Nine out of ten stars.